Breakdown of Meteorolog najavljuje sutrašnju kišu.
kiša
rain
meteorolog
meteorologist
najavljivati
to announce
sutrašnji
tomorrow's
Questions & Answers about Meteorolog najavljuje sutrašnju kišu.
How is the adjective sutrašnju formed from the word for tomorrow?
The base word is the adverb sutra (tomorrow). To turn temporal adverbs into adjectives, Croatian adds -nji or -šnji. Because sutra ends in a vowel, it takes -šnji to make it easier to say, creating sutrašnji. Here, it ends in -u (sutrašnju) to match the feminine accusative noun kišu.
Would a native speaker ever say kišu od sutra instead of sutrašnju kišu?
No, that would sound very unnatural. English sometimes uses prepositions for time relationships, but Croatian strongly prefers turning the time word into an adjective using -nji or -šnji and placing it directly before the noun.
Why is the imperfective verb najavljuje used here instead of the perfective najavi?
The imperfective najavljivati is used because it describes an action happening right now in the present: the meteorologist is currently announcing the forecast. The perfective najaviti focuses on the completion of the action and is rarely used in standalone present-tense sentences.
Why do sutrašnju and kišu both end in -u?
They are the direct object of the verb najavljuje (is announcing), so they must be in the accusative case. The base feminine noun kiša changes to kišu, and the adjective sutrašnja must agree with it, changing its ending to -u as well.
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