Breakdown of Majka je ljuta jer je nered po kuhinji.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
jer
because
majka
mother
kuhinja
kitchen
ljut
angry; spicy
po
across, around
nered
mess
Questions & Answers about Majka je ljuta jer je nered po kuhinji.
Why do we use po kuhinji instead of just u kuhinji?
While u kuhinji means simply "in the kitchen," the preposition po gives the feeling of something being scattered, spread out, or happening across an area. So po kuhinji translates better to "all over the kitchen" or "around the kitchen."
What case is the word kuhinji here?
It is in the locative case. The base word is kuhinja (kitchen). When used with the spatial preposition po to show where something is located, feminine nouns ending in -a change their ending to -i.
In English we say "there is a mess". Why is it just je nered in Croatian?
Croatian doesn't use filler words like "there" or "it" to introduce a subject. To say "there is a mess," you simply use the verb je (is) and the noun nered (mess).
Why does the word for angry end in -a (ljuta)?
Adjectives must match the gender of the noun they describe. Since majka (mother) is a feminine noun, the adjective takes the feminine singular ending -a instead of the default masculine form ljut.
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