Breakdown of Želim s vama dijeliti svoje misli.
vi
you
željeti
to want
svoj
one's own
s
with
dijeliti
to share
misao
thought
Questions & Answers about Želim s vama dijeliti svoje misli.
Why is the word for "thoughts" misli? What is its singular form?
The singular form is misao (thought). It is a feminine noun that ends in a consonant, meaning it follows the "i-declension". To form the plural, the "fleeting a" drops out, and the final -o turns back into an -l- before adding the plural ending -i. This makes misli. Here it is in the accusative case (the object you want to share), which also ends in -i for plural i-declension nouns.
Why does the sentence use svoje instead of moje for "my"?
Whenever the object belongs to the subject of the sentence, Croatian uses the reflexive possessive pronoun svoj (one's own). Since "I" am the subject and they are "my" thoughts, you must use svoje. Using moje here would sound unnatural to a native speaker.
Why does svoj take the form svoje in this sentence?
It needs to match misli, which is in the feminine accusative plural. For feminine nouns, the accusative plural ending for pronouns and adjectives is -e, so svoj becomes svoje.
Why is it s vama and what case is vama?
Vama is the instrumental case of vi (you, formal or plural). The preposition s (with) requires the instrumental case when it means doing something in the company of someone else. We use the short form s instead of sa because the following word doesn't start with a hissing consonant like s, z, š, or ž.
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