Stotina ljudi vidi heroja.

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Breakdown of Stotina ljudi vidi heroja.

• ljudi: people
• heroj: a hero
• stotina: a hundred; hundreds

Questions & Answers about Stotina ljudi vidi heroja.

Why is the verb vidi singular and not plural?

Because the grammatical subject is stotina, and stotina is singular.

In Croatian, stotina ljudi literally works like a hundred of people, where stotina is the head noun and ljudi depends on it. Since stotina is singular, the verb agrees with it:

• Stotina ljudi vidi heroja. = A hundred people see the hero.

So even though the meaning involves many people, the grammar treats stotina as the subject, and that makes the verb singular.

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Why is ljudi in that form?

Here ljudi is used after stotina, and words like stotina are followed by the genitive plural.

So:

• stotina = a hundred
• ljudi = of people

That gives:

• stotina ljudi = a hundred people

This is very common in Croatian with quantity expressions.

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Is ljudi the normal plural of čovjek?