Breakdown of Ovo brdo je vrlo zahtjevno, ali prijeći ćemo ga.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
on
he
ovaj
this (m) / ova (f), ovo (n)
ali
but (strong contrast)
htjeti
to want (intent, will)
prijeći
to cross (perfective)
vrlo
very (formal)
brdo
hill
zahtjevan
demanding
Questions & Answers about Ovo brdo je vrlo zahtjevno, ali prijeći ćemo ga.
The lesson says prijeći can take the Accusative or preko + Genitive. Which one is used here?
We are using the Accusative here. The pronoun ga at the end of the sentence is in the Accusative case. You could also say prijeći ćemo preko njega (we will cross over it) using preko and the Genitive case, but using the direct Accusative is shorter and very natural.
Why do we use the pronoun ga for "it"?
ga is the short-form (clitic) Accusative pronoun for both masculine and neuter nouns. Because the noun it replaces, brdo (hill), is neuter, ga is the correct word to mean "it" as the direct object of the verb.
Why doesn't the verb prijeći drop its final "i" before ćemo in the future tense?
In Croatian, only infinitives ending in -ti drop the final -i when placed right before the future tense helper verb (for example: radit ćemo). Verbs that end in -ći, like prijeći, keep their full infinitive form, so it stays prijeći ćemo.
Where does the word zahtjevno come from?
It comes from the noun zahtjev, which means a "demand" or "request". As an adjective, zahtjevno translates literally to "demanding" or "challenging". Here, it takes the neuter -o ending to match brdo.
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