Breakdown of Po mom mišljenju, trebamo više vremena.
trebati
to need / should (ought to)
više
more
vrijeme
time
po mom mišljenju
in my opinion
Questions & Answers about Po mom mišljenju, trebamo više vremena.
Why does the sentence use mom instead of mojem?
Mom is simply the contracted form of mojem, which is the locative singular of moj (my). Both are correct, but the shorter form is much more common in everyday spoken and written Croatian.
What case is po mom mišljenju and why?
It is in the locative case. The preposition po requires the locative case when it is used to mean "according to" or to express an opinion.
I've learned that trebati (to need) can be tricky. Why is it conjugated as trebamo here instead of using an impersonal form?
When trebati takes a noun as a direct object (like više vremena), it acts like a normal verb and is conjugated personally to match the subject (mi trebamo). The impersonal form (like treba nam) is strictly required in standard Croatian only when the verb is followed by another verb (for example, treba nam ići meaning "we need to go").
Why is the noun vrijeme (time) written here as vremena?
Two things are happening. First, the word više (more) is an adverb of quantity, which always forces the noun that follows it into the genitive case. Second, vrijeme is a neuter noun that irregularly adds an -en- stem in cases other than the nominative and accusative singular, making its genitive form vremena.
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