Questions & Answers about Magla je na cesti, vozi sporo!
The English translation says 'There is fog', so why doesn't the Croatian sentence use 'Ima'?
While English uses 'there is' for weather, Croatian often just uses the subject and the verb to be (biti). So Magla je literally means 'Fog is'. You could also say Ima magle (using ima + genitive case), but Magla je is a very common and natural way to describe the current weather.
Why does cesta (road) change to cesti in this sentence?
It changes to the locative case because it follows the preposition na (on) to show a static location. For feminine nouns ending in -a like cesta, the locative ending is -i, making it cesti.
Does vozi mean 'he/she drives' or 'drive!' as a command?
Here it is a command (the imperative form) telling one person to 'drive!'. By coincidence, the informal ti (you) command form of voziti is exactly the same as the on/ona (he/she) present tense form. You can tell it is a command here from the context of giving a warning.
Why does the word for slowly (sporo) end in -o?
In Croatian, you can easily turn many adjectives into adverbs (words that describe how an action is done) by using the neuter singular form, which ends in -o. So the adjective spor (slow) becomes the adverb sporo (slowly) to describe how you should drive.
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