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Questions & Answers about Kuhamo vruć ručak.
Why do vruć and ručak look exactly like their dictionary forms here?
In this sentence, vruć ručak is the direct object (the thing being cooked), so it must be in the accusative case. For masculine nouns that are inanimate (not alive, like a meal), the accusative case looks exactly the same as the nominative (dictionary) case. The adjective vruć follows this rule and stays in its base form too.
What would happen to the adjective if the masculine noun was a living thing instead?
If the direct object is a masculine animate noun (a person or an animal), both the noun and the adjective must change their endings. For example, if you used a living masculine noun, the adjective would take an -og or -eg ending. But because a lunch is not alive, vruć doesn't get a new ending.
I've learned the word vruće for "hot". Why is it vruć in this sentence?
Adjectives must match the gender of the noun they describe. Ručak is a masculine noun, so we use the masculine form vruć. You have probably seen vruće used to talk about general temperature (like vruće je, meaning "it is hot"); that is the neuter form, which is also used as an adverb.
Where is the word for "we" (mi)?