Breakdown of Oni peku kruh u novoj kuhinji.
kruh
bread
nov
new
kuhinja
kitchen
peći
to bake / to roast, to fry (meat)
Questions & Answers about Oni peku kruh u novoj kuhinji.
The infinitive is peći and the I-form is pečem. Why is the "they" form peku instead of peču?
The verb peći (to bake) has an irregular present tense. While most forms use the soft stem peč- (such as pečem, pečeš), the third-person plural form reverts to the hard stem pek-, making it peku. This is a common pattern for Croatian verbs ending in -ći.
Why doesn't the word kruh change ending here since it is the direct object?
It actually is in the accusative case here! Because kruh (bread) is a masculine inanimate noun, meaning it is an object and not a living being, its accusative form looks exactly the same as its nominative dictionary form.
Why do we use the ending -oj on the adjective novoj?
The phrase is in the locative case because it describes a static location using the preposition u (in). Since the noun kuhinja (kitchen) is feminine, the adjective nova (new) takes the feminine locative ending -oj, becoming novoj.
Would the ending of kuhinji change if they were walking INTO the kitchen rather than already baking inside it?
Yes! The preposition u takes the locative case for a static location, as we see here with u novoj kuhinji. If you wanted to show motion towards a destination, like walking into the kitchen, u would take the accusative case, becoming u novu kuhinju.
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