Questions & Answers about Moraš dodati ovoliko brašna i šećera.
Why use ovoliko here instead of toliko or onoliko?
Ovoliko means "this much" and is used when the quantity is physically close to the speaker (for example, if you are holding a measuring cup). If the ingredients were closer to the person you are talking to, you would use toliko, and if they were far from both of you, you would use onoliko.
Why do the words for flour (brašno) and sugar (šećer) end in -a in this sentence?
They are in the genitive case. In Croatian, any word that expresses a quantity like ovoliko (this much), malo (a little), or puno (a lot) forces the noun that follows it into the genitive case. You can think of it like saying "this much OF flour" in English.
Do masculine and neuter nouns share the same ending in the genitive singular?
Yes! Brašno (flour) is a neuter noun and šećer (sugar) is a masculine noun. Despite having different genders, they both take the exact same -a ending in the genitive singular, becoming brašna and šećera.
Is dodati perfective or imperfective?