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Stanovnici grada imaju prijevoz, ali nemaju mir.

Stanovnici grada imaju prijevoz, ali nemaju mir.
The residents of the city have transport, but they do not have peace.
From Lesson 132:Contrastive conjunctions (a vs. ali)·Croatian

Questions & Answers about Stanovnici grada imaju prijevoz, ali nemaju mir.

Why is ali used here instead of a?
The word ali means "but" and is used when there is a direct opposition or contradiction. Here, having transport is a benefit, but lacking peace is a drawback, creating a strong contrast. If you were just comparing two different groups doing different things (like "City residents have transport, and/while village residents have peace"), you would use a.
Why does the word for city end in "a" (grada)?
It is in the genitive case, which is often used to translate the English word "of". The dictionary word is grad, but to say "residents of the city", it changes to grada.
Are prijevoz (transport) and mir (peace) in the dictionary form (nominative)?
They look like it, but they are actually in the accusative case because they are the direct objects being "had" (or not had). For masculine nouns that do not represent living beings (inanimate nouns), the accusative case looks exactly the same as the nominative dictionary form.
Why is "do not have" written as one word (nemaju)?
In Croatian, the word ne (not) is usually written separately from the verb. However, the verb imati (to have) is a special exception where ne merges with the verb. So, ne + imaju becomes nemaju.

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