Questions & Answers about Odobrenje je važno.
Odobrenje is a noun. It means approval or permission/authorization, depending on context.
In this sentence, it is:
- singular
- neuter gender
- nominative case
It is the subject of the sentence.
Odobrenje is a noun. It means approval or permission/authorization, depending on context.
In this sentence, it is:
It is the subject of the sentence.
Je is the 3rd person singular form of the verb biti (to be).
So in this sentence, je means is.
The structure is very straightforward:
So the sentence is literally Approval is important.
Croatian usually does not use articles like the or a/an.
So odobrenje can mean:
The exact meaning depends on context.
Also, Croatian does not need a dummy subject like English it in sentences such as It is important unless the structure specifically calls for it. Here, the real subject is odobrenje.
Yes. This is a very normal and neutral Croatian word order:
Subject + verb + adjective
Croatian word order is fairly flexible, though, so other versions are possible for emphasis, such as:
That sounds more marked and would usually shift the focus. The original Odobrenje je važno is the most neutral version.
In this sentence, važno is used predicatively, meaning it comes after to be and describes the subject:
That is why the normal form is važno.
Croatian often uses different adjective forms depending on position and function, but after je in a sentence like this, the basic agreeing form is exactly what you expect here.
A rough English-friendly guide:
A few helpful sound notes:
So:
In this case, yes: odobrenje is a neuter noun, and the ending -e is a strong clue.
Many Croatian neuter nouns end in:
So learners often correctly guess that a noun like odobrenje is neuter.
However, it is still best to learn nouns together with their gender, because endings are helpful but not a perfect rule for every word in the language.
Yes, depending on context, odobrenje can sometimes be understood as:
The exact English translation depends on the situation.
For example:
So the Croatian sentence stays the same, while the best English translation can shift slightly.
You make it negative by changing je to nije:
That means Approval is not important.
This is a very common Croatian pattern:
It is in the nominative case because it is the subject of the sentence.
In Odobrenje je važno, the sentence is saying something about approval. The thing being described is the subject, so Croatian uses the nominative:
This is one of the most common uses of the nominative case.