Breakdown of Gromovi su toliko glasno tutnjali po gradu da su se djeca uplašila.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
grad
city
uplašiti se
to get scared
glasno
loudly
da
that (conjunction)
po
across, around
djeca
children
toliko
so much, so many
grom
thunderbolt
tutnjati
to rumble
Questions & Answers about Gromovi su toliko glasno tutnjali po gradu da su se djeca uplašila.
How does the 'toliko ... da' structure work in this sentence?
The correlative toliko ... da means 'so ... that'. Here, toliko modifies the adverb glasno (loudly), showing the intensity of the rumbling. The consequence of that loud noise is then introduced by da (that). This functions exactly like the English 'so loudly that'.
Why use 'po gradu' instead of 'u gradu'?
The preposition po with the locative case often indicates that an action is distributed across an area. While u gradu simply means the rumbling happened 'in the city', po gradu emphasizes that the sound echoed 'all over' or 'across' the entire city.
Why does the verb 'uplašila' have an '-a' ending if 'djeca' refers to multiple people?
djeca (children) is a special collective noun. It takes plural verbs (like the auxiliary su), but its past participle must take the neuter plural ending -a (making it uplašila, not the masculine plural uplašili). This mixed agreement is a common B2 stumbling block!
What is the difference between 'gromovi' and 'grmljavina'?
gromovi is the plural of grom and refers to individual thunderbolts or distinct claps of thunder. If you wanted to describe thunder as a general, uncountable phenomenon or continuous weather event, you would use the singular noun grmljavina.
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