Breakdown of Napisali smo prigovor i poslali ga upravi.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
i
and (additive)
ga
him, it (accusative clitic)
poslati
to send
napisati
to write (perfective)
prigovor
complaint
uprava
management
Questions & Answers about Napisali smo prigovor i poslali ga upravi.
If I wanted to say 'We didn't write any kind of complaint', how would I use the adjective 'nikakav' in this sentence?
You would say Nismo napisali nikakav prigovor i poslali ga upravi. Because Croatian requires double negatives, the verb must also be negative (nismo). Since prigovor is a masculine inanimate noun in the accusative case, nikakav takes its inanimate accusative form, which looks exactly like the nominative.
Why does the pronoun ga come immediately after poslali?
The word ga is a short pronoun (a clitic) that naturally wants to be in the second position of its clause. The conjunction i (and) starts a new clause here. Because poslali is the first word of that new clause, ga slots perfectly into the second position right after it.
How do we know ga means 'it' and not 'him' in this context?
The pronoun ga refers back to the direct object, prigovor (complaint). Because prigovor is a masculine noun in Croatian, it uses the masculine pronoun ga in the accusative case. Pronouns always match the grammatical gender of the noun they replace, even for inanimate objects.
What case is upravi and why?
It is in the dative case. The dictionary form is uprava (management). The dative case is used for the indirect object, which represents the recipient of an action. Since the complaint was sent to the management, the feminine ending -a changes to -i.
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