Breakdown of Ja samo šutim i gledam film.
ja
I
i
and (additive)
gledati
to watch
film
movie
samo
only
šutjeti
to be silent
Questions & Answers about Ja samo šutim i gledam film.
Where is the -jeti verb in this sentence, and how did we get the form šutim?
The verb is šutjeti, which means "to be silent" or "to keep quiet". For regular -jeti verbs, you drop the -jeti from the dictionary form (the infinitive) and add -im for the "I" form. That gives us šutim.
Why does šutim end in -im, but gledam ends in -am if they are both "I" actions?
They belong to different verb groups based on their dictionary forms! Šutjeti is a regular -jeti verb, which takes the -im ending. But the verb for "to watch" is gledati. Because it ends in -ati, its "I" form takes the -am ending, making it gledam.
Shouldn't the word film have a different ending since it is the object I am watching?
It is indeed in the accusative case (the grammatical form for direct objects), but its ending doesn't change here! Film is a masculine noun, and it is inanimate (not a living person or animal). In Croatian, inanimate masculine nouns look exactly the same in the object form as they do in the dictionary.
Could I drop the word Ja (I) at the beginning of the sentence?
Yes, absolutely! You could just say Samo šutim i gledam film. Because the verb endings (-im and -am) already tell us that "I" am doing the action, the pronoun Ja is optional. Including it just adds a little bit of emphasis.
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