Zakon ukinut na tom teritoriju više ne postoji.
The law abolished on that territory no longer exists.
Breakdown of Zakon ukinut na tom teritoriju više ne postoji.
ne
no, not
na
on, at / to, onto (with motion) / about (thinking about)
više
anymore
taj
that (masculine)
postojati
to exist
zakon
law
ukinuti
to abolish
teritorij
territory
Questions & Answers about Zakon ukinut na tom teritoriju više ne postoji.
How would you express ukinut na tom teritoriju using a full relative clause?
You would say Zakon koji je ukinut na tom teritoriju... (The law which was abolished on that territory...). By dropping koji je, you create a more concise post-nominal participial phrase. This structure is highly common in formal written Croatian, such as news or legal texts.
Could we place the phrase ukinut na tom teritoriju before the noun Zakon?
No, that would sound unnatural. When a participle has its own modifiers or prepositional phrases attached to it (like na tom teritoriju), the whole extended phrase usually comes after the noun it describes. If it were just the single word ukinut without extra details, it would go before the noun like a normal adjective: ukinuti zakon (the abolished law).
Why is the participle ukinut in the nominative masculine singular form?
Even though it acts as a reduced relative clause, ukinut still functions grammatically like an adjective modifying Zakon (law). Since Zakon is a masculine singular noun in the nominative case (it is the subject of the sentence), the participle must match its gender, number, and case. If the subject were feminine, like odluka (decision), it would be Odluka ukinuta...
Why does više ne mean "no longer" when više usually translates to "more"?
In negative contexts, više translates to "anymore" or "any longer". When placed directly before a negated verb (like ne postoji), the combination više ne is the standard Croatian way to express that an ongoing state or action has stopped (i.e., "no longer").
Just to refresh, why is na tom teritoriju in the locative case instead of the accusative?
The preposition na takes the locative case when answering the question "where?" (static location or the setting of an event). The law was abolished within that territory. If the sentence described physical movement or direction onto a territory, na would take the accusative case.
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