Questions & Answers about Nemam salatu.
Why does the word for salad end in -u (salatu) instead of -a?
The dictionary form of the word is salata. Because it is the direct object of the verb (the thing you do not have), it needs to be in the accusative case. For feminine nouns ending in -a, this means changing the -a to a -u.
Why is 'do not have' combined into the single word nemam?
Why isn't the word ja (I) used in this sentence?
The ending of the verb nemam already tells us that 'I' am the one who doesn't have the salad. In Croatian, it is perfectly normal to drop the subject pronoun unless you want to emphasize it.
Where is the word for 'a' in this sentence?
Croatian does not use articles like 'a', 'an', or 'the'. The word salatu covers 'a salad' all by itself.
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