Breakdown of Moramo uravnotežiti perilicu-sušilicu rublja zbog vibracije.
morati
to have to
zbog
because of
perilica-sušilica rublja
a washer-dryer
vibracija
vibration
Questions & Answers about Moramo uravnotežiti perilicu-sušilicu rublja zbog vibracije.
What does moramo mean?
Moramo is the 1st person plural present of morati, which means must or have to.
So moramo = we must / we have to.
Croatian often leaves out the subject pronoun, so there is no separate word for we here. The verb ending -mo already tells you the subject is we.
Why is uravnotežiti in the infinitive?
After the modal verb morati (must / have to), Croatian normally uses the infinitive:
- moramo uravnotežiti = we have to balance
This works much like English have to + verb.
Also, uravnotežiti is a perfective verb. That means it refers to a completed action: balancing the machine successfully, not just working on it in a general sense.
In this sentence, that makes sense because the idea is to do the balancing as a concrete task.
Why is perilicu-sušilicu not perilica-sušilica?