Word
Gdje je prozor u kupaonici?
Meaning
Where is the window in the bathroom?
Part of speech
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Questions & Answers about Gdje je prozor u kupaonici?
Why does the word for bathroom, kupaonica, end in -i here?
This is the locative case, which is used to talk about locations. For feminine nouns that end in -a, like kupaonica, the ending changes to -i in the locative case.
Why do we use the locative case after the word u (in)? Doesn't it sometimes take a different case?
Yes, the preposition u can take either the locative or the accusative case. You use the locative when describing a fixed location, answering the question "where is it?" (Gdje je...?). If you were describing movement into the bathroom (like "Where are you going?"), you would use the accusative case instead.
Why doesn't the word prozor (window) change its ending?
prozor is the subject of the sentence—it's the thing that is somewhere. Because it's the subject, it stays in its basic, dictionary form (the nominative case). It is a masculine noun, which is why it ends in a consonant rather than -a.
Could I change the word order and say Je gdje prozor u kupaonici?
No, you cannot start a sentence with je. It is a special type of short, unstressed word (called an enclitic) that strongly prefers the second position in a sentence, right after the first word or phrase (in this case, after Gdje).