Breakdown of Uproljeće je sve opet zeleno.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
zelen
green
sav
all (of a whole) / everyone, all (people) / everything
opet
again
Questions & Answers about Uproljeće je sve opet zeleno.
Is Uproljeće supposed to be one word, and can I use na proljeće instead?
Yes, you can use either! Uproljeće is an adverb meaning "in the spring," created by merging the preposition u and the noun proljeće. It is completely correct to write it as one word, as two words (u proljeće), or to use the alternative phrase na proljeće. All three mean the exact same thing.
Why is the adjective zeleno in the neuter form?
Adjectives must agree with the noun or pronoun they describe. Here, the subject is sve (everything). In Croatian, sve is a neuter singular pronoun, so the adjective must also be neuter singular (zeleno instead of the masculine zelen or feminine zelena).
Why does the verb je come before the subject sve?
This is because je (is) is an enclitic, which is a "weak" word that does not have its own accent and must take the strict second position in a sentence. Since the adverb Uproljeće takes up the first position, je has to slide in right after it, pushing the subject sve further down the sentence.