Breakdown of Rekao bih da ravan put izgleda kao duga crta.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
dug
long
put
way
reći
to tell
Questions & Answers about Rekao bih da ravan put izgleda kao duga crta.
If a woman were speaking, how would rekao bih change?
She would say rekla bih. The word rekao is the active past participle, which must agree with the gender of the speaker. The helper word bih (the conditional form of the verb 'to be') stays the same for both genders in the first person singular.
Why is duga crta in the nominative case here rather than the accusative?
The word kao (like or as) does not force a specific case on its own. Instead, the noun following it matches the case of the thing being compared. Because the straight path (ravan put) is the subject of the clause and is in the nominative case, the long line (duga crta) must also be in the nominative case.
Why does the sentence use ravan instead of ravni?
Is there a difference between crta and linija, and could I use linija here?