Word
Neviđen su podvig ti gosti ostvarili.
Meaning
Those guests accomplished an unprecedented feat.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Neviđen su podvig ti gosti ostvarili.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
gost
guest
taj
that (masculine)
ostvariti
to achieve
Questions & Answers about Neviđen su podvig ti gosti ostvarili.
Why is the clitic su placed between neviđen and podvig instead of after the whole phrase?
This splits the noun phrase neviđen podvig (unprecedented feat) to place a strong stylistic emphasis on the adjective neviđen. While a more neutral word order would keep the phrase together (like Ti gosti su ostvarili neviđen podvig), fronting the adjective and immediately following it with the clitic makes the statement much more dramatic.
Neviđen podvig looks like it is in the nominative case. How do we know it is the direct object?
The subject is clearly ti gosti (those guests) because it is in the masculine plural nominative and perfectly matches the plural verb su ostvarili. Podvig is a masculine inanimate noun, meaning its accusative form is identical to its nominative form. Because it receives the action of the verb, neviđen podvig is in the accusative case here.
Why is it neviđen instead of the definite form neviđeni?
Since podvig (feat) is an inanimate masculine noun in the accusative case, the adjective describing it takes the indefinite accusative form, which looks identical to the nominative: neviđen. If you were pointing out a specific, previously discussed feat, you might use the definite neviđeni, but here it functions like the English 'an unprecedented feat'.
How exactly does the word neviđen mean 'unprecedented'?