Pas ima veliku kost.

dog

Breakdown of Pas ima veliku kost.

• velik: big
• imati: to have
• kost: a bone

Questions & Answers about Pas ima veliku kost.

Why is it pas and not psa?

Because pas is the subject of the sentence, so it is in the nominative singular.

• pas = nominative singular, used for the subject
• psa = accusative/genitive singular, used in other roles

In Pas ima veliku kost, the dog is the one doing the having, so Croatian uses pas.

What does ima mean, and why is that the form used here?

Ima is the 3rd person singular present tense of imati, which means to have.

The subject pas is singular, so the verb must also be singular:

• ja imam = I have
• ti imaš = you have
• on/ona/ono ima = he/she/it has

So pas ima means the dog has.

Why is it veliku and not velika?