Breakdown of Rekao bih da je ovaj stol okrugao kao krug.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
stol
table
ovaj
this (m) / ova (f), ovo (n)
reći
to tell
Questions & Answers about Rekao bih da je ovaj stol okrugao kao krug.
If a woman is speaking, how does the phrase Rekao bih change?
You would say Rekla bih. The conditional mood here is formed using the active past participle (rekao, rekla, reklo) and the aorist auxiliary verb (bih). Because the participle must agree with the gender of the speaker, a woman uses the feminine form rekla.
Why is the adjective okrugao used here instead of okrugli?
Okrugao is the indefinite form of the adjective. In Croatian, when an adjective is used as part of the predicate (following a form of the verb to be, like je), you must use the indefinite form. Okrugli is the definite form, which you would use if the adjective came directly before the noun, such as in the phrase okrugli stol (the round table).
Why does the masculine form okrugao look so different from the feminine form okrugla?