Breakdown of Stan je prostran, ali sve je još uvijek prazno.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
ali
but (strong contrast)
još
yet, still / another, one more
uvijek
always
stan
apartment
prazan
empty
sav
all (of a whole) / everyone, all (people) / everything
prostran
spacious
Questions & Answers about Stan je prostran, ali sve je još uvijek prazno.
Why does this sentence use the neuter adjective prazno (empty) instead of the masculine form prazan?
The adjective prazno is describing the pronoun sve (everything). In Croatian, the pronoun sve acts grammatically as a neuter singular noun, so any adjectives modifying it must also be in the neuter singular form.
Since the word everything here refers to things in the apartment (stan), should it not use masculine agreement?
Even though the sentence is talking about the inside of the masculine noun stan, the pronoun sve is completely fixed in its grammar. It is always a neuter singular word, meaning any adjectives and verbs attached to it will take the neuter form regardless of context.
Why is the adjective prostran (spacious) in its short form rather than the long form prostrani?
Why are both još and uvijek used together here to translate to still?
Literally meaning yet always, the combination još uvijek is the standard and most natural phrase in Croatian to express that an action or state is still happening. While još alone can sometimes mean still, using the full phrase još uvijek avoids confusion with its other meanings like more or yet.
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