Breakdown of Kad budeš pio ovo osvježavajuće piće, nećeš biti žedan.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
ovaj
this (m) / ova (f), ovo (n)
žedan
thirsty
piti
to drink
Questions & Answers about Kad budeš pio ovo osvježavajuće piće, nećeš biti žedan.
How is the word osvježavajuće formed, and what is its role in this sentence?
It is a present active participle acting as an adjective. It is formed by taking the imperfective verb osvježavati (to refresh), finding its 3rd person plural present tense form (osvježavaju), and adding the suffix -ći to get the base osvježavajući (refreshing). Here, it directly describes the noun piće (drink).
Why does it end in -e (osvježavajuće) instead of -i (osvježavajući)?
Because it is being used attributively (like a regular adjective), it must agree in gender, number, and case with the noun it modifies. Piće is a neuter noun in the accusative case. The neuter singular accusative ending for this type of adjective is -e, giving us osvježavajuće piće.
Why does the sentence use budeš pio instead of the normal future tense ćeš piti?
Budeš pio is the Exact Future (Futur drugi). In Croatian, when you have a subordinate clause introduced by kad (when) or ako (if) referring to a future event, you generally use the Exact Future to show that this action will happen before or alongside the main future action (nećeš biti žedan).
What does the word žedan tell us about the person being spoken to?