Breakdown of Budući da isporuka kasni, organizatori su nervozni.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
kasniti
to be late
nervozan
nervous
budući da
since
organizator
organizer
isporuka
delivery (supply, handover)
Questions & Answers about Budući da isporuka kasni, organizatori su nervozni.
Why use Budući da here instead of jer or zato što to mean "because"?
Budući da translates well to "since" or "given that" and is almost always used at the very beginning of a sentence. In contrast, conjunctions like jer or zato što are typically used in the middle of a sentence to attach a reason to the main clause.
Could we use pošto instead of budući da?
In everyday conversational Croatian, you will often hear people use pošto to mean "since" at the start of a sentence. However, in strict standard grammar, pošto actually means "after," making budući da the safest and most formally correct choice here.
How does the comma affect where we put the small word su?
Enclitics (weak words like su) must take the second position in their own clause. Because the sentence starts with a dependent clause followed by a comma (Budući da isporuka kasni,), the "second position" counting completely resets. In the main clause, organizatori is the first word, so su naturally drops in right behind it.
Why does the adjective nervozni end in -i?
It has to match the noun it describes, organizatori, which is masculine plural. In the nominative case (the subject of the sentence), masculine plural adjectives end in -i. If the organizers were a group of women (organizatorice), the adjective would take the feminine plural ending -e and become nervozne.
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