Questions & Answers about Moramo uzeti u obzir cijenu.
The phrase uzeti u obzir means "to take into account". What does obzir mean on its own?
On its own, obzir means "consideration" or "regard". You will also see it very often at the B2 level in the phrase s obzirom na (considering / with regard to). So literally, you are taking the price into consideration.
Why is cijenu in the accusative case here?
Because it is the direct object of the verb uzeti (to take). Even though the prepositional phrase u obzir is placed right after the verb, the core action is still "taking the price", so the feminine noun cijena changes to its accusative form, cijenu.
Could I use the imperfective verb uzimati instead of uzeti here?
You would only use uzimati if you were talking about a repeated or general habit. For example, "We always take the price into account" would be Uvijek moramo uzimati u obzir cijenu. Because this sentence focuses on a single, specific decision, the perfective uzeti is used.
Is it possible to change the word order and say Moramo uzeti cijenu u obzir?
Yes, that word order is completely fine and sounds very natural. Keeping uzeti u obzir together as a single block emphasizes the idiom itself, but putting the direct object cijenu immediately after the verb is also perfectly correct in Croatian.
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