Questions & Answers about Gdje su velika stabla?
Why does stabla end in "-a" if it means "trees"? Doesn't "-a" usually mean a word is feminine singular?
Great catch! While many feminine singular nouns end in "-a" (like žena), neuter nouns like stablo (tree) change their ending from "-o" or "-e" to "-a" when they become plural. So, stablo is one tree, and stabla is multiple trees.
Why does the adjective velika (big) also end in "-a"?
Adjectives have to match the noun they describe. Since stabla is a neuter plural noun, the adjective takes the neuter plural ending, which is also "-a". If it were a single tree, it would be veliko stablo.
How can we quickly tell this sentence is plural if the nouns and adjectives look like feminine singular words?
The verb gives it away! The word su means "are" (the plural form of je, which means "is"). If the sentence were about a single feminine thing, it would use je instead of su.
The translation says "the big trees", but where is the word for "the" in the Croatian sentence?
Croatian doesn't have articles like "a", "an", or "the". You just say velika stabla, and depending on the context, it is understood as either "big trees" or "the big trees".