Voditelj govori kao da će bodovati, dodijeliti i oduzeti bodove.

Voditelj means a host, presenter, MC, or moderator, depending on context. It is a masculine singular noun in the nominative case, and it comes from the verb voditi, meaning to lead or to guide.

If the person were female, Croatian would usually use voditeljica instead.

Govori is the 3rd person singular present tense of govoriti, meaning to speak or to say.

Because the subject is voditelj (singular), the verb is singular too. Croatian often uses the present tense where English might say either speaks or is speaking, depending on context.

Kao da means as if or as though.

It introduces something that is presented as an impression, appearance, or comparison, not necessarily a fact. So the sentence suggests that the host is speaking in a way that makes it sound as though he is about to do those things.

A useful point for English speakers: Croatian does not need a special subjunctive form after kao da. It just uses normal verb forms.

This is the normal Croatian future I construction: će + infinitive.

Here, će is the 3rd person singular form of htjeti used as a future auxiliary. So:

će bodovati = will score
će dodijeliti = will award
će oduzeti = will deduct

When the auxiliary comes first, the infinitive stays in its full form: će bodovati.

If the auxiliary comes after the infinitive, the infinitive is usually shortened: bodovat će.

Both patterns are standard, but this sentence uses the first one.

Because one auxiliary can govern a whole series of infinitives.

So će bodovati, dodijeliti i oduzeti means: will score, award, and deduct.

Croatian does not need to repeat će before each verb unless the speaker wants extra emphasis: će bodovati, će dodijeliti i će oduzeti would sound unnatural here.

They overlap, but they are not exactly the same.

Bodovati usually means to score, to evaluate using points, or to assign points as part of judging. It focuses more on the scoring process.

Dodijeliti bodove means to award points. It focuses more directly on the act of giving points.

So in this sentence, the speaker uses several related verbs together for effect: the host talks as if he is going to be actively judging, giving points, and even taking them away.

This is about aspect, which is very important in Croatian.

• bodovati is normally imperfective: it presents scoring as an activity or process.
• dodijeliti and oduzeti are perfective: they present awarding and deducting as completed acts.

Croatian often mixes aspects in a list if each verb is chosen for the meaning the speaker wants. That is what happens here.

If the speaker wanted to emphasize repeated or ongoing actions for all three, different imperfective verbs might be used, such as dodjeljivati and oduzimati.

Bodove is the accusative plural of bod meaning point.

It appears at the end because Croatian often places the object after a series of verbs. That is very natural style.

Here, bodove most clearly goes with dodijeliti and oduzeti:

• dodijeliti bodove = award points
• oduzeti bodove = deduct points

With bodovati, the idea is a bit broader: to do the scoring / to score something. So the noun at the end fits the whole scoring-related idea, even though it is most directly linked to the last two verbs.

Because bodove is the direct object, so it must be in the accusative plural.

• nominative plural: bodovi = points as the subject
• accusative plural: bodove = points as the object

In this sentence, the points are what will be awarded or deducted, so accusative is required.

Because Croatian is a pro-drop language. It often leaves out subject pronouns when they are already clear from the noun or the verb form.

Here, the subject is already stated as voditelj, so there is no need to add on.

Using on would only be for emphasis or contrast, something like: On govori kao da će... That would mean something more like He is the one speaking as if he will...

You would normally change voditelj to voditeljica:

Voditeljica govori kao da će bodovati, dodijeliti i oduzeti bodove.

The verb govori stays the same, because present-tense verb forms in Croatian do not change for gender, only for person and number.

Gender becomes more visible in some past-tense forms, but not here.