Word
Oni peku integralni kruh s kvascem.
Meaning
They are baking wholewheat bread with yeast.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Breakdown of Oni peku integralni kruh s kvascem.
kruh
bread
oni
they
s
with
peći
to bake / to roast, to fry (meat)
Questions & Answers about Oni peku integralni kruh s kvascem.
Why does the verb form peku (they bake) use a 'k' when most other present tense forms of peći use a 'č', like pečem (I bake)?
This is due to a historical sound change called palatalization. For verbs ending in -ći with a 'k' in their root (like peći), the 'k' changes to 'č' before the vowel 'e'. This means you get pečem, pečeš, peče, pečemo, and pečete. However, in the 3rd person plural, the ending is -u, so the original 'k' remains: oni peku.
Why does integralni kruh look like it's in the nominative case when it's clearly the direct object being baked?
It is actually in the accusative case! Because kruh is a masculine inanimate noun (a non-living thing), its accusative form is identical to its nominative form. The adjective integralni matches this inanimate accusative form as well. If it were a living thing (like a dog, pas), the ending would change.
The dictionary word for yeast is kvasac. Why does it change to kvascem here?
Two rules apply here. First, kvasac has a "fleeting a" (nepostojano a) in its final syllable, which drops out when we add grammatical endings, leaving the stem kvasc-. Second, because the preposition s (with) requires the instrumental case, we add an ending. Since the stem ends in the soft consonant c, it takes the ending -em instead of the standard masculine ending -om.