Breakdown of Kada budemo naselili galaksiju, stvorit ćemo novi svijet.
nov
new
ću
will (future auxiliary)
kada
when / if (with conditional)
stvoriti
to create (perfective)
svijet
world
budem
will be (Future II auxiliary; budeš, bude, budemo, budete, budu)
naseliti
to colonize
galaksija
galaxy
Questions & Answers about Kada budemo naselili galaksiju, stvorit ćemo novi svijet.
Why do we use budemo naselili in the first part, but stvorit ćemo in the second part?
Budemo naselili is the Future II tense. We use it in subordinate clauses (starting with words like kada, ako, or čim) to describe a future action that must finish before the main future action. The main action, creating a new world, uses the regular Future I tense (stvorit ćemo).
How exactly is the Future II tense built in budemo naselili?
It is formed by combining the present tense of the perfective verb to be (budem, budeš, etc.) with the l-participle (the form you use for the past tense). Here, we have budemo for the first person plural, and naselili, the plural l-participle of naseliti.
Are the verbs naseliti and stvoriti perfective or imperfective?
Both are perfective verbs, meaning they describe completed actions. In Croatian, Future II is frequently used with perfective verbs after kada to stress that the first action (colonizing) will be completely finished before the second one (creating) begins.
Why is it spelled stvorit ćemo instead of stvoriti ćemo?
When a verb ends in -ti and the Future I auxiliary (ću, ćeš, će, etc.) comes right after it, you drop the final i from the infinitive. If the word order were reversed, the i would stay: mi ćemo stvoriti.
What case is novi svijet in this sentence? It looks like the Nominative case.
It is actually in the Accusative case because it is the direct object of the verb stvoriti (to create). Because svijet (world) is a masculine inanimate noun, its Accusative form looks exactly the same as its Nominative form.
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