Izmjenjivač radi tiho.

to work

Breakdown of Izmjenjivač radi tiho.

• tiho: quietly
• izmjenjivač: a power inverter

Questions & Answers about Izmjenjivač radi tiho.

What part of speech is izmjenjivač, and what form is it in here?

Izmjenjivač is a noun. In this sentence, it is nominative singular, because it is the subject of the sentence.

It is also a masculine noun. You can often tell that from the consonant ending in the dictionary form.

So structurally:

• izmjenjivač = the subject
• radi = the verb
• tiho = an adverb describing how it works

What does radi mean here exactly?

Here, radi is the 3rd person singular present tense of raditi.

So:

• ja radim = I work / I am working
• ti radiš = you work
• on/ona/ono radi = he/she/it works

In this sentence, radi means something like:

• works
• operates
• is functioning

For a machine or device, radi is very natural Croatian.

Why is it tiho and not tih?