Breakdown of Audicija je za izvođače koji mogu nastupati pred tisuću ljudi.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
ljudi
people
moći
can
koji
which
tisuća
thousand
pred
in front of
za
for (+ accusative)
audicija
audition
izvođač
performer
nastupati
to perform
Questions & Answers about Audicija je za izvođače koji mogu nastupati pred tisuću ljudi.
Why is koji in the nominative case when it refers to izvođače, which is in the accusative?
The relative pronoun koji takes its gender and number from the noun it refers to, which is the masculine plural izvođače. However, its case depends on its job inside its own clause. Here, koji acts as the subject of the verb mogu (who can), so it must be in the nominative case.
The preposition pred usually takes the instrumental case for location. Why doesn't tisuću change to its instrumental form (tisućom)?
While tisuća (a thousand) is grammatically a feminine noun and can decline, it is most commonly used in everyday Croatian as a fixed, indeclinable number frozen in its accusative form tisuću. Therefore, pred tisuću ljudi is standard, even though pred implies a static location here.
Why is the word for people (ljudi) in the genitive case here?
Whenever you use a number from five upwards or a quantifier like tisuću (a thousand), the noun being counted must be in the genitive case. Since it is a plural amount of people, it takes the genitive plural form ljudi.
Why use the imperfective verb nastupati instead of the perfective nastupiti?
The imperfective verb nastupati is used because it emphasizes a general, ongoing ability or habit. The audition is looking for performers who have the general capability to perform in front of large crowds, rather than referring to one specific, completed performance.
Since this lesson is about correlative clauses, could we use takav ... kakav in this sentence instead of koji?
Yes! You could rephrase it as: Audicija je za takve izvođače kakvi mogu nastupati pred tisuću ljudi (The audition is for such performers as are able to perform...). Here, takve describes the type of performers in the accusative case, and kakvi is nominative because it acts as the subject of the second clause.
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