Questions & Answers about Piletina i juha su dobre.
Why is the adjective dobre instead of dobri?
In Croatian, adjectives must match the gender of the nouns they describe. Since both piletina and juha are feminine nouns, the plural adjective must also be in the feminine form, which is dobre. If even one of the nouns were masculine, the adjective would default to the masculine plural form dobri.
I thought the verb su had to be the second word in the sentence. Why is it fourth here?
You are right that su is an enclitic, which usually goes in the second position. However, 'second position' means the second grammatical block, not strictly the second word. Here, the entire subject phrase Piletina i juha acts as the first block, so su correctly follows it.
Does piletina mean the live animal 'chicken' or just the meat?
Piletina specifically refers to chicken meat used for food. If you are talking about the live bird, you would use pile for a young chicken or kokoš for a hen. Croatian often uses the ending -etina to turn an animal into its meat.
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