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Questions & Answers about Voda je doma.
How can I tell what gender voda is just by looking at it?
Look at the ending! The word voda ends in -a. In Croatian, regular nouns that end in -a in their basic dictionary form (the nominative case) are feminine.
Why is there no word for "the" in front of voda?
Croatian does not use articles like "the", "a", or "an". The single word voda translates to both "water" and "the water" depending on what makes sense in English.
Why does the sentence use doma for "at home" instead of a word like kuća (house)?
While kuća means the physical building of a house, doma is a very common fixed word that specifically means "at home". It comes from the noun dom (home).
Why does je (is) come directly after voda here?
The word je is a type of "weak" word called an enclitic. These words do not have their own stress and cannot start a sentence. Because of this rule, they usually snap right into the second position in a sentence.