Komunicirat ću s Nives o tehničkom sektoru.
I will communicate with Nives about the technical sector.
Breakdown of Komunicirat ću s Nives o tehničkom sektoru.
htjeti
to want (intent, will)
s
with
o
about / on (dependent on)
komunicirati
to communicate
Nives
Nives
tehnički
technical
sektor
sector
Questions & Answers about Komunicirat ću s Nives o tehničkom sektoru.
Why doesn't the name Nives change its ending after the preposition s?
Because Nives is a female name ending in a consonant. In Croatian, female names that do not end in -a (like Nives, Ines, or Karmen) are completely indeclinable. They keep their original form in all grammatical cases, so here it remains exactly as Nives even though the preposition s requires the instrumental case.
Why is the verb written as Komunicirat ću instead of Komunicirati ću?
When the future tense enclitic (ću, ćeš, će, etc.) directly follows a verb ending in -ti, the final -i of the infinitive is dropped. This reflects how it is pronounced natively.
Why use the preposition s here instead of sa?
The longer form sa is only used when the following word begins with sibilant consonants (s, z, š, ž) or certain tricky consonant clusters. Since Nives begins with n, the standard short form s is used.
Why does the phrase tehnički sektor change to tehničkom sektoru?
The preposition o, when used to mean 'about' a topic of conversation, requires the locative case. The masculine noun sektor takes the locative ending -u, and the modifying adjective tehnički changes to match it as tehničkom.
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