Word
Udomljavanje počinje danas.
Meaning
The adoption process starts today.
Part of speech
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Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about Udomljavanje počinje danas.
What does udomljavanje mean exactly?
Udomljavanje means adoption or the process of giving something/someone a home. In everyday Croatian, it is very often used for pet adoption or rehoming animals.
So this sentence is likely talking about an adoption event, campaign, or process beginning today.
Is udomljavanje a noun or a verb here?
It is a noun here.
More specifically, it is a verbal noun: a noun formed from a verb. It comes from verbs like udomiti / udomljavati, and it refers to the action or process itself, similar to English adopting or adoption.
In this sentence, udomljavanje is the subject:
- Udomljavanje = the adoption / adoption process
- počinje = starts
- danas = today
What case is udomljavanje in?
It is in the nominative singular, because it is the subject of the sentence.
A learner may notice that udomljavanje ends in -e, which is common for neuter singular nouns in Croatian.
So grammatically:
- udomljavanje = nominative singular neuter
- it is the thing that starts