Questions & Answers about Naš mesar prodaje svježe meso.
Wait, why is the adjective ending for neuter svježe instead of svježo?
This is because of the consonant ž at the end of the root svjež-. In Croatian, neuter adjectives usually end in -o, but if the stem ends in a soft or palatal consonant (like č, ć, š, ž, j, lj, nj, đ, dž), the neuter ending changes to -e.
The verb prodaje means sells, but is it perfective or imperfective?
It is imperfective. The infinitive is prodavati (to sell generally or continually). The perfective form (to sell a specific thing completely) is prodati, which would be conjugated as proda in the present tense. Since a butcher sells meat as an ongoing routine, the imperfective is correct here.
Is meso here in the nominative or accusative case?
It is in the accusative case because it is the direct object of the verb prodaje (the thing being sold). For neuter nouns like meso (and their adjectives, like svježe), the accusative form is always identical to the nominative form.