Word
Dvije pobjede i jedan poraz — dobar tjedan.
Meaning
Two victories and one defeat — a good week.
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Questions & Answers about Dvije pobjede i jedan poraz — dobar tjedan.
Why does this sentence use dvije instead of dva for the number two?
Is pobjede in the plural here because there are two of them?
It looks like the nominative plural, but grammatically it is the genitive singular. In Croatian, the numbers 2, 3, and 4 require the following noun to be in the genitive singular case. For feminine nouns ending in -a, this form just happens to look exactly like the nominative plural.
Why does the word for "one" (jedan) match the noun's gender and case?
Why is it dobar tjedan instead of dobri tjedan?
Dobar is the indefinite form of the adjective, which translates best to "a good week". If you used the definite form dobri, it would mean "the good week". We use the indefinite form here because we are describing the week in a general, non-specific way.