Word
U bolnici je radi pregleda srca.
Meaning
She is in the hospital for a heart check-up.
Part of speech
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Breakdown of U bolnici je radi pregleda srca.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
u
in, into
bolnica
hospital
radi
for the sake of
Questions & Answers about U bolnici je radi pregleda srca.
Why do we use radi here instead of zbog?
Radi expresses a purpose or a goal (she is there for the purpose of a check-up), whereas zbog expresses a cause. If she were in the hospital because of a heart attack (the reason it happened), you would use zbog.
What case follows radi, and how does it change the word for check-up?
The preposition radi always takes the genitive case. That is why the masculine noun pregled (check-up) gets an -a ending, becoming pregleda.
Why is srca (heart) also in the genitive case?
This is a common way to link nouns in Croatian, similar to saying 'of the' in English. She is having a check-up of the heart. Because it modifies the noun before it, the neuter noun srce takes the genitive ending and becomes srca.
Just as a refresher, why is it u bolnici instead of u bolnicu?
Because she is already located there. The preposition u takes the locative case (bolnici) to show a static location. If she were traveling to the hospital, you would use the accusative case (u bolnicu) to show motion towards a destination.