Questions & Answers about To je voda.
How can I tell what gender the word voda is?
Look at the last letter! The word voda ends in -a. In Croatian, almost all regular nouns ending in -a in their base dictionary form (the nominative case) are feminine.
If voda is feminine, why does the sentence start with the neuter word to instead of the feminine ta?
That is a very common pattern in Croatian! When you are simply pointing something out and saying "That is..." or "This is...", you always use the fixed neuter pronoun to. You do not need to match it to the gender of the noun you are introducing.
Why is there no word for "the" or "some" before voda?
Croatian does not have articles like "a", "an", or "the". The single word voda translates to "water", "the water", or "some water", depending entirely on the context of the conversation.
What is the dictionary form of the verb je?
je translates to "is". It is the third-person singular form of the highly irregular verb biti (to be).
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