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Questions & Answers about Soba smrdi.
What part of speech is soba, and what form is it in?
Soba is a noun. In this sentence, it is in the nominative singular, because it is the subject of the sentence.
- soba = a room / room
- singular feminine noun
So in Soba smrdi., soba is the thing doing the action of smelling bad.
Is soba feminine, masculine, or neuter?
Soba is feminine.
A common clue is the ending -a, which often marks feminine nouns in Croatian, though there are exceptions. Because it is feminine, other words that agree with it, such as adjectives, would also usually take feminine forms.
For example:
- Prljava soba smrdi. = The dirty room smells bad.
Here prljava is feminine singular to match soba.
Why is there no word for the or a in the sentence?