Word
Pretplatnik je napustio mrežu.
Meaning
The subscriber left the network.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Pretplatnik je napustio mrežu.
biti
to be
mreža
network
pretplatnik
subscriber
napustiti
to leave; abandon
Questions & Answers about Pretplatnik je napustio mrežu.
Why is there je in the sentence?
Je is the 3rd person singular present form of biti (to be), and here it is used as an auxiliary verb to form the past tense.
So the structure is:
- Pretplatnik = subscriber
- je = has / is (auxiliary for the past)
- napustio = left
- mrežu = the network
Croatian often forms the past tense with:
present of biti + past participle
So je napustio means left / has left.
Why is it napustio, not just a present-tense form of the verb?
Because the sentence is in the past tense.
The basic verb is napustiti = to leave / abandon.
To say left, Croatian uses the past participle:
- masculine singular: napustio
- feminine singular: napustila
- neuter singular: napustilo
Since pretplatnik is a masculine singular noun, the verb form is napustio.
For example:
- Pretplatnik je napustio mrežu.
- Pretplatnica je napustila mrežu.
Why does napustio end in -o?