Njegovo Veličanstvo govori.

• Njegovo = his
• Veličanstvo = Majesty
• govori = speaks / is speaking

So the whole sentence means His Majesty speaks or His Majesty is speaking, depending on context.

Because njegovo has to agree with Veličanstvo, and Veličanstvo is a neuter singular noun.

In Croatian, possessive words like njegov / njegova / njegovo change form to match the noun they describe:

• masculine: njegov
• feminine: njegova
• neuter: njegovo

Since Veličanstvo is neuter, the correct form is njegovo Veličanstvo.

Because grammatical gender and real-life gender are not always the same thing.

Veličanstvo is grammatically a neuter noun, even when it refers to a male ruler. Croatian grammar follows the gender of the noun, not the biological sex of the person, when making adjectives and possessives agree with it.

So:

• Njegovo Veličanstvo = His Majesty
• Njezino Veličanstvo = Her Majesty

Both use a neuter form for Veličanstvo, but the possessive still tells you whether it is his or her.

Govori is the 3rd person singular present tense of govoriti (to speak, to talk).

So it means:

• he/she/it speaks
• sometimes he/she/it is speaking

In this sentence, the subject is Njegovo Veličanstvo, so govori means His Majesty speaks or His Majesty is speaking.

It can mean either one.

Croatian present tense often covers both:

• a general meaning: speaks
• an action happening now: is speaking

The exact meaning depends on context.

So Njegovo Veličanstvo govori could mean:

• His Majesty speaks
  or
• His Majesty is speaking

Because Croatian does not have articles like the or a/an.

English says:

• His Majesty
• the king
• a man

Croatian simply uses the noun without an article:

• Veličanstvo
• kralj
• čovjek

So there is nothing missing; that is just how Croatian works.

It is capitalized because it is being used as a formal title.

In very formal or respectful usage, titles like Veličanstvo are often written with a capital letter, especially when referring directly to a monarch or in ceremonial style.

So Njegovo Veličanstvo works like His Majesty in English.

It is in the nominative case, because it is the subject of the sentence.

The sentence answers the question Who speaks? Answer: Njegovo Veličanstvo

That is why the subject phrase is in the nominative.

Yes, Croatian word order is more flexible than English word order.

The neutral, straightforward order is:

• Njegovo Veličanstvo govori.

You could also change the order for emphasis in some contexts, for example:

• Govori Njegovo Veličanstvo.

But that sounds more marked or stylistic. For a learner, Njegovo Veličanstvo govori is the safest and most natural basic order.

No. It is similar, but not the same.

• Njegovo Veličanstvo = His Majesty
• Njezino Veličanstvo = Her Majesty
• Vaše Veličanstvo = Your Majesty

So njegovo refers to someone else, while vaše is used when speaking directly to the monarch.

A simple approximate pronunciation is:

NYEH-go-vo veh-lee-CHAN-stvo GO-vo-ree

A few helpful points:

• nj sounds like the ny in canyon
• č sounds like ch in church
• j is pronounced like English y
• Croatian words are usually pronounced quite consistently, much more regularly than English spelling

So:

• Njegovo ≈ NYEH-go-vo
• Veličanstvo ≈ veh-lee-CHAN-stvo
• govori ≈ GO-vo-ree