Questions & Answers about Sva vina ovdje imaju slatkast okus.
How is slatkast formed from the word for "sweet", and why does the spelling change?
The base adjective is sladak (sweet). When we add the approximative suffix -kast to mean "sweetish", the fleeting a in the base drops out. This puts the voiced consonant d right next to the voiceless k of the suffix. To make pronunciation easier, the d changes to its voiceless counterpart t (voicing assimilation), resulting in slatkast.
Why does slatkast okus lack an accusative ending even though it is the direct object?
The word okus (taste) is a masculine inanimate noun. For inanimate masculine nouns, the accusative case is identical to the nominative case. Therefore, both the noun okus and its modifying adjective slatkast take no special accusative ending here, unlike animate masculine nouns which would take an -og or -a ending.
Why is the word for "all" written as sva instead of svi or sve?
The noun vino (wine) is neuter. In the plural, neuter nominative nouns end in -a, becoming vina. The pronoun for "all" must agree in gender, number, and case, so we use the neuter plural form sva. For comparison, svi is masculine plural, and sve is feminine plural or neuter singular.