Breakdown of Moj djed je došao s puta i bio je jako zbunjen.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
i
and (additive)
djed
grandfather
put
way
doći
to come, to arrive
moj
my
jako
very, strongly (colloquial)
s
from, off (+ genitive)
zbunjen
confused
Questions & Answers about Moj djed je došao s puta i bio je jako zbunjen.
Is zbunjen considered part of a passive verb tense here or just a regular adjective?
It functions purely as an adjective here. Although zbunjen is technically the past passive participle of the verb zbuniti (to confuse), in this sentence it does not describe a passive action being done to him by someone else. Instead, it is used for its purely stative meaning to describe his fixed psychological state: he was confused.
Because zbunjen is derived from a verb, how does it change if the subject is female?
Even though it is derived from a verb, this type of verbal adjective behaves exactly like a regular adjective. If the subject were your grandmother, it would take the standard feminine ending: Moja baka je došla s puta i bila je jako zbunjena.
Why do we use the preposition s in s puta to mean 'from the trip' rather than iz?
In Croatian, going on a trip uses the preposition na (na put). The rule is that if you travel somewhere using na, you must return from there using the preposition s (or sa). Since s requires the genitive case, put becomes puta.
Why does the enclitic je come after bio instead of right after i?
The conjunction i (and) is 'invisible' to enclitics; it does not count as the first word of the clause for word-order purposes. Therefore, the new clause effectively starts with bio, making it the first position, so the enclitic je must immediately follow it.
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