Breakdown of Časopis u kojem pisac piše o toj državi stvarno je poznat.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
u
in, into
pisati
to write / to say, be stated (in a text)
stvarno
really
poznat
famous / familiar (to someone)
koji
which
o
about / on (dependent on)
taj
that (masculine)
pisac
writer
časopis
magazine (m)
država
country (f)
Questions & Answers about Časopis u kojem pisac piše o toj državi stvarno je poznat.
Why is it u kojem instead of just koji?
Koji means "which", but here it comes after the preposition u (in). Because it refers to a location (inside the magazine), it needs the locative case. Since it refers back to the masculine noun časopis (magazine), the correct locative form is kojem.
I sometimes see kojemu. Could we use that here instead of kojem?
Yes! Both kojem and kojemu are correct locative forms for masculine and neuter nouns. The shorter form kojem is just more common in everyday conversation, but u kojemu would mean exactly the same thing.
Why does the phrase "about that country" change to o toj državi?
The preposition o (when meaning "about" a topic) always forces the following words into the locative case. The feminine noun država changes to državi, and the word for "that" (ta) changes to toj so that they match.
How do we know the adjective poznat (famous) describes the magazine and not the writer?
The sentence has a main part and an inserted descriptive part. The main sentence is Časopis... stvarno je poznat (The magazine... is really famous). The inserted part u kojem pisac piše o toj državi just tells us more about the magazine. Both časopis and pisac are masculine, but the structure tells us poznat belongs to the main subject at the start of the sentence.
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