Breakdown of Iako je renovacija skupa, sve je predivno.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
skup
expensive
sav
all (of a whole) / everyone, all (people) / everything
iako
although
renovacija
renovation
predivan
wonderful
Questions & Answers about Iako je renovacija skupa, sve je predivno.
Why is predivno in the neuter form if the sentence is about a feminine noun, renovacija?
In the second half of the sentence, the subject changes to sve (everything). In Croatian, the universal pronoun sve is always grammatically neuter singular. Because the adjective predivno (wonderful) describes sve, it must take the neuter ending -o.
Could I use the feminine form predivna since the renovation is what we are calling wonderful?
No, because grammatically the adjective must agree with its immediate subject. Even though logically the sentence is talking about the results of the renovation, the subject of the second clause is explicitly sve. You must use the neuter form predivno to match it.
What if I wanted to say everybody is wonderful instead of everything?
If you are referring to people (everybody or everyone), you would use the pronoun svi instead of sve. Because svi is grammatically masculine plural, the verb and adjective would also change to match it, becoming svi su predivni.
Why does the adjective skupa end in -a while predivno ends in -o?
Both are adjectives, but they are describing different subjects. Skupa (expensive) describes renovacija (renovation), which is a feminine singular noun, so it takes the feminine -a ending. Predivno describes the neuter pronoun sve, requiring the neuter -o ending.
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