Breakdown of Organiziramo dvadeset jedan raskošan banket.
jedan
one
dvadeset
twenty
organizirati
to organize
raskošan
lavish
Questions & Answers about Organiziramo dvadeset jedan raskošan banket.
Why are raskošan and banket in the singular when the translation says "banquets" in the plural?
This is the key rule for compound numbers! In Croatian, any number ending in 1 (such as 21, 51, or 101, but excluding 11) behaves grammatically like the number 1. Therefore, the noun that follows it, along with any adjectives, must take the singular form.
What case is the phrase dvadeset jedan raskošan banket in?
It is in the accusative case because it is the direct object of the verb organiziramo (we are organizing). Because banket is a masculine inanimate noun (a non-living thing), its accusative form looks identical to its nominative form.
Why doesn't the word jedan or the adjective raskošan have an accusative ending here?
This is due to the inanimate masculine rule. For non-living masculine nouns, the accusative case has no special ending. If we were organizing twenty-one living things, like dogs (pas), the adjectives and the word jedan would take the animate accusative ending: dvadeset jednog psa.