Breakdown of Htjela bih ugodan apartman u hotelu.
hotel
hotel
u
in, into
htjeti
to want (intent, will)
bih
would (conditional auxiliary: bih, bi, bi, bismo, biste, bi)
Questions & Answers about Htjela bih ugodan apartman u hotelu.
How does htjela bih differ from saying želim?
Htjela bih is the conditional mood of htjeti (to want). While želim means "I want", using the conditional softens the statement to "I would like". This is the standard, polite way to make a request in Croatian, just like in English.
Does htjela tell us anything about who is speaking?
Yes! Htjela is the feminine form. The phrase htjela bih tells us that the speaker is a woman. If a man were speaking, he would use the masculine form and say htio bih.
I see ugodan apartman is the object of the sentence. Why doesn't the ending change for the accusative case?
Because apartman is a masculine inanimate noun (a thing, not a living being). In Croatian, masculine inanimate nouns and their adjectives look exactly the same in the accusative case as they do in the basic dictionary form (nominative).
Why is it u hotelu instead of u hotel?
The preposition u takes the locative case when you are talking about a static location (where something is located). The locative ending for most masculine nouns like hotel is -u, which gives us hotelu.