Word
To je neispravan uređaj što sam ga danas vratio.
Meaning
That is the defective device that I returned today.
Part of speech
sentence
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Breakdown of To je neispravan uređaj što sam ga danas vratio.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
on
he
to
that
danas
today
Questions & Answers about To je neispravan uređaj što sam ga danas vratio.
Why do we use što sam ga here instead of koji sam?
This sentence uses the indeclinable word što to connect the clauses. When using što this way, you must include a pronoun clitic to show its role in the relative clause. Because the device is the direct object of vratio (returned), we use the accusative masculine clitic ga (it). With the standard declinable relative pronoun, this would simply be koji sam danas vratio.
What dictates the order of the clitics sam and ga after što?
In Croatian, enclitics must sit in the second position of their clause, which here is right after the relativizer što. Their internal order is strictly fixed: the verbal auxiliary clitic sam must always come before the accusative pronoun clitic ga.
Why is ga used for an inanimate object like uređaj?
It is true that inanimate masculine nouns use their nominative form for the accusative case. However, personal pronoun clitics do not make this animate/inanimate distinction. The accusative clitic for all masculine singular nouns is always ga, regardless of whether the noun is a living thing or a device.
Why is the adjective neispravan in its indefinite form rather than the definite neispravni?