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Why is "this morning" just one word (jutros), and how is it different from ujutro?
Croatian has special single words for times of the current day. Jutros specifically means "this morning" (the morning of today). In contrast, ujutro means "in the morning" as a general time of day, as in "I drink coffee in the morning" (Ujutro pijem kavu).
Why are both bilo and sunčano in the neuter form?
When describing general weather conditions or the environment, Croatian uses an "impersonal" structure. Since there isn't a specific masculine or feminine noun acting as the subject, the sentence defaults to the neuter singular. This gives us the neuter past tense verb bilo and the neuter adjective sunčano.
Where is the word for "it" in this sentence?
Croatian frequently drops pronouns (like I, you, he, it) because the verb already shows the subject. For impersonal weather phrases, there isn't a real subject anyway, so you just say je bilo (was) without using the Croatian word for "it" (ono).
Could I change the word order and say Jutros bilo je sunčano?
No, because je is a "clitic" (a small, unstressed word) that must typically sit in the second position of the sentence. Since Jutros takes up the first spot, je has to come right after it, followed by the main verb bilo.