Breakdown of Puknuće cijevi nastaje zbog istrošenosti.
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Puknuće is a verbal noun: a noun derived from the verb puknuti (to crack, burst, rupture).
In this sentence, puknuće names the event/result itself: a rupture / bursting / cracking.
A learner will often notice that Croatian can express an action either:
- with a verb: Cijev je puknula = the pipe burst
- or with a noun: Puknuće cijevi = the rupture of the pipe
So yes, it behaves like a noun here, but it comes from a verb.
Because cijevi is in the genitive singular.
The basic noun is:
- cijev = pipe
After a noun like puknuće, Croatian often uses the genitive to mean of ...:
- puknuće cijevi = rupture of the pipe
So:
- cijev = nominative singular
- cijevi = genitive singular
This is very common in Croatian noun phrases.