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Questions & Answers about Televizori su ovdje.
Why does the word for television end in -i here?
Because it is plural! The singular word is televizor. Since it is a regular masculine noun (meaning it ends in a consonant), we simply add an -i to the end to make it plural: televizori.
Where is the word for "the" in this sentence?
Croatian doesn't have articles like "the", "a", or "an". The word televizori can mean "televisions" or "the televisions", depending entirely on the context.
Why do we use su instead of je here?
Je means "is" and is used for singular subjects. Because we are talking about multiple televisions, we must use the plural form su, which means "are".
Could I change the word order and say Su televizori ovdje?
No, you cannot start this sentence with su. Su is a short, unstressed word (an enclitic), and a strict rule in Croatian is that these short words can never be the very first word in a sentence.