Word
Ona će oblikovati lonac i dodati četvrtinu litre vode.
Meaning
She will shape the pot and add a quarter of a liter of water.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Ona će oblikovati lonac i dodati četvrtinu litre vode.
ona
she
voda
water
i
and (additive)
htjeti
to want (intent, will)
Questions & Answers about Ona će oblikovati lonac i dodati četvrtinu litre vode.
Why is the word for quarter written as četvrtinu here instead of četvrtina?
In Croatian, fractions like četvrtina act as regular nouns. Since it is the direct object being added (the object of the verb dodati), it takes the accusative case, changing the -a ending to -u.
Why do both litre and vode end in -e?
This is a chain of genitive cases! Noun fractions like četvrtina require the following word to be in the genitive, turning litra (liter) into litre. Then, because litra is a unit of measurement, the substance being measured also has to be in the genitive, turning voda (water) into vode. Literally, it reads as a quarter of a liter of water.
Why isn't the future tense helper word će repeated before dodati?
When connecting two verbs in the future tense with i (and) for the same subject, you do not need to repeat the helper verb. Both infinitives, oblikovati (to shape) and dodati (to add), share the single će at the start of the sentence.
Lonac (pot) is the direct object, so why doesn't its ending change?
Lonac is indeed in the accusative case here. However, because it is a masculine noun that is inanimate (a non-living thing), its accusative form looks exactly the same as its dictionary form.