Breakdown of Gospodine, ljekarnik će Vam objasniti doziranje.
vi
you
gospodin
gentleman
htjeti
to want (intent, will)
objasniti
to explain
ljekarnik
pharmacist (m)
doziranje
dosage
Questions & Answers about Gospodine, ljekarnik će Vam objasniti doziranje.
Why is the sentence using Gospodine instead of Gospodin?
Gospodine is the vocative case of gospodin (sir or gentleman). You must use the vocative case when directly addressing someone. For most masculine nouns ending in a consonant, you form this by adding the suffix -e or -u.
Why is the pronoun Vam capitalized here?
Capitalizing the formal formal pronoun Vi (and its cases, like the dative Vam here) is the standard way to show respect in written Croatian. You will frequently see this in professional and customer-service settings, such as a medical professional addressing a patient.
Why are će and Vam placed right after ljekarnik instead of next to the main verb?
Both će (future tense helper) and Vam (dative pronoun) are clitics, which are unstressed words that must sit in the strict second position of a clause. The comma creates a hard boundary, meaning the new clause starts with ljekarnik in the first position, so the clitics must immediately follow it. Furthermore, the verbal clitic će must always come before the pronoun clitic Vam.
How is the noun doziranje formed?
It is a verbal noun meaning the dosing or the dosage. In Croatian, you can easily turn many verbs into neuter nouns by adding the suffix -nje to the verb stem. Here, it is formed directly from the verb dozirati (to dose) and functions a lot like an English gerund ending in -ing.
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