Breakdown of Otvorila je račun za štednju kako bi imala više novca.
kako
how
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
imati
to have
novac
money
račun
bill
otvoriti
to open
više
more
za
for (+ accusative)
štednja
savings
Questions & Answers about Otvorila je račun za štednju kako bi imala više novca.
In English, we say "in order to have", but here it is kako bi imala. Why isn't an infinitive used?
In Croatian, purpose clauses with kako bi (in order to) require the conditional mood, not the infinitive. The conditional is formed with the aorist of biti (here, bi for third-person singular) and the l-participle (imala). It translates literally to "so that she would have."
Why do we say račun za štednju for "savings account"? What case is štednju in?
Štednju is in the accusative case. The preposition za followed by the accusative is often used to describe what an object is meant for. So, račun za štednju literally means "an account for saving."
Why is novac (money) written as novca here?
Because of the word više (more). Adverbs of quantity like više, manje (less), puno (a lot), and malo (a little) always require the following noun to be in the genitive case. Novca is the genitive singular form of novac, with the fleeting A dropped.
How does the sentence show who will have more money if the pronoun ona (she) is missing?
The ending of the l-participle tells us! The word imala ends in -la, which indicates a feminine, singular subject. If the subject were masculine, it would be kako bi imao, and for a plural group it would be kako bi imali.
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