Word
Njegov sin je uznemiren zbog loše situacije u tvrtki.
Meaning
His son is upset about the bad situation in the company.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Njegov sin je uznemiren zbog loše situacije u tvrtki.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
tvrtka
company
loš
bad
u
in, into
Questions & Answers about Njegov sin je uznemiren zbog loše situacije u tvrtki.
uznemiren looks like a verb participle. Is it acting as a verb or an adjective here?
It is acting entirely as an adjective describing a stative psychological state (upset or agitated). It is derived from the past passive participle of the verb uznemiriti (to disturb or upset). Because it behaves like a standard adjective here, it simply matches the subject Njegov sin in gender and number, which is masculine singular.
We translated zbog as about, but doesn't it usually mean because of?
Yes, its literal meaning is because of. While English speakers say someone is upset about something, Croatian frames it as being upset because of that thing. The preposition zbog always requires the Genitive case, which is why the feminine noun phrase loša situacija changes to loše situacije.
Could I say uznemiren za lošu situaciju instead?
No, that would sound unnatural. While we use za plus the Accusative case with similar stative adjectives like zabrinut (worried for or about), uznemiren points directly to the cause of the distress. Therefore, it strictly pairs with zbog plus the Genitive case.
I thought the Locative case of a word ending in -ka like tvrtka would change the k to a c. Why is it u tvrtki?