Breakdown of Kada budemo imali obnovljive izvore, imat ćemo više struje.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
imati
to have
ću
will (future auxiliary)
struja
electricity
kada
when / if (with conditional)
više
more
izvor
source
obnovljiv
renewable
Questions & Answers about Kada budemo imali obnovljive izvore, imat ćemo više struje.
Why does the first part of the sentence use budemo imali instead of the regular future tense?
Budemo imali is the Future II tense. In Croatian, when you use words like kada (when) or ako (if) to talk about a condition that must be met in the future before the main action can happen, you use Future II. Notice that English just uses the present tense here ('when we have'), which can be tricky!
How is the Future II tense formed in budemo imali?
It is built using the present perfective tense of the verb biti (to be) — which is budemo for the 'we' form — combined with the past participle of the main verb, which is imali.
Why is the 'i' missing at the end of imat in imat ćemo?
Imat ćemo is the regular future tense (Future I). When a verb's infinitive ends in -ti (like imati) and the future helping verb (like ćemo) comes immediately after it, the final -i of the infinitive is dropped in both writing and pronunciation.
Why is the word for electricity, struja, written as struje here?
It is in the genitive case because it comes after više (more). In Croatian, adverbs that express quantity, such as više, malo (a little), or puno (a lot), always require the following noun to be in the genitive case.
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