Word
Glumci stoje na pozornici cijelu noć.
Meaning
The actors are standing on the stage all night.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Glumci stoje na pozornici cijelu noć.
na
on, at / to, onto (with motion) / about (thinking about)
noć
night
cijeli
whole
glumac
actor
Questions & Answers about Glumci stoje na pozornici cijelu noć.
Why is cijelu noć in the accusative case if there is no preposition before it?
In Croatian, you use the accusative case without a preposition to express how long something lasts (duration of time). Because the actors are standing for the whole night, the phrase cijela noć changes into the accusative cijelu noć.
The adjective changes to cijelu, but why doesn't the noun noć change its ending in the accusative?
Most feminine nouns end in -a and change to -u in the accusative case. However, noć belongs to a special group of feminine nouns that end in a consonant. For these nouns, the accusative form is exactly the same as the nominative form. The adjective cijelu still behaves normally and takes the standard feminine accusative ending.
Why is the word for stage pozornici here instead of pozornica?
The preposition na takes the locative case when you are talking about a static location, like where someone is standing. To form the locative case for a feminine noun ending in -a, you change the -a to -i, making it pozornici.
The singular word for actor is glumac. Why is the plural glumci and not glumaci?