Breakdown of Tvoj novi šampon je pored tuša.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
nov
new
tvoj
your (informal)
pored
next to
šampon
shampoo
tuš
shower
Questions & Answers about Tvoj novi šampon je pored tuša.
Why is it novi with an -i at the end, rather than just nov?
Novi is the definite form of the adjective. In Croatian, when you use a possessive pronoun like tvoj (your) or moj (my) before an adjective, you generally must use the definite form of that adjective. Therefore, it has to be tvoj novi šampon, not tvoj nov šampon.
I learned that the little verb je has to be the second word in a sentence. Why is it the fourth word here?
Enclitics (unstressed words like je) take the second position in a sentence. However, this can mean either the second word or the position right after the first complete phrase. Here, Tvoj novi šampon acts as a single, inseparable block of information. Placing je right after Tvoj (Tvoj je novi šampon...) is grammatically allowed, but keeping the noun phrase together is usually much more natural.
Why is the word for shower, tuš, written as tuša here?
The preposition pored (next to or beside) always requires the noun that follows it to be in the genitive case. Since tuš is a regular masculine noun ending in a consonant, it takes the standard masculine genitive ending -a.
Could I use another word instead of pored to say "next to"?
Yes, you can use kraj or pokraj. They are practically interchangeable with pored in this context and also require the genitive case, so you could absolutely say Tvoj novi šampon je kraj tuša.
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