Breakdown of Tvoj plan ne vrijedi ništa bez našeg novca.
ne
no, not
tvoj
your (informal)
plan
plan
novac
money
naš
our
bez
without
ništa
nothing
vrijediti
to be worth
Questions & Answers about Tvoj plan ne vrijedi ništa bez našeg novca.
Why does the sentence use both ne vrijedi and ništa? Isn't that a double negative?
Yes, and in Croatian, double negatives are strictly required! Whenever you use a negative pronoun or adverb like ništa (nothing), nitko (nobody), or nikad (never), the verb must also be negative. So literally, this translates as 'doesn't worth nothing'.
Why does the word for money (novac) lose its 'a' in the phrase bez našeg novca?
This is a classic example of the fleeting 'a' (nepostojano a). In many nouns ending in a consonant + a + consonant (like novac or pas), the final 'a' drops out when you add case endings. Since the preposition bez requires the genitive case, novac becomes novca.
Can vrijediti only be used for monetary value, like it is here?
What case is našeg novca and what triggers it?
It is in the genitive case. The preposition bez (without) always forces the noun—and any pronouns or adjectives describing it, like našeg—into the genitive case.
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