Word
U srijedu sam pobjegao od dima.
Meaning
On Wednesday, I ran away from the smoke.
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Questions & Answers about U srijedu sam pobjegao od dima.
The verb here is pobjegao. What is its dictionary form, and why is the ending irregular?
The dictionary form (infinitive) is pobjeći (to escape or run away). As you are learning in this lesson, many verbs ending in -ći have irregular past tense forms. For pobjeći, the masculine past tense form changes to pobjegao. A female speaker would say pobjegla.
Why is the word for smoke dima instead of just dim?
The word dim (smoke) is in the genitive case here because it follows the preposition od (from). In Croatian, od always forces the following noun into the genitive case, so the masculine noun dim adds an -a to become dima.
Why do we say u srijedu for 'on Wednesday'? Doesn't u usually mean 'in'?
While u often means 'in', Croatian uses u plus the accusative case to say that something happens 'on' a specific day of the week. The base word for Wednesday is srijeda (a feminine noun), and its accusative form changes the -a to -u, making it u srijedu.
Why is the helper verb sam placed right after U srijedu?