Questions & Answers about Moji prijatelji uče engleski zajedno.
How do moji and prijatelji reflect gender, number, and case agreement in this sentence?
In Croatian, adjectives (including possessive adjectives) must agree with the noun they modify in gender, number, and case. Here:
• prijatelji is masculine animate, plural, nominative (subject form).
• moji is the masculine animate, plural, nominative form of the possessive adjective moj (“my”).
Together they form a grammatically coherent noun phrase: moji prijatelji (“my friends”) in the nominative case.
Why is uče used here, and what does it tell us about the subject?
uče is the third person plural present tense form of the verb učiti (“to learn” / “to study”). The full present tense conjugation is:
• ja učim
• ti učiš
• on/ona/ono uči
• mi učimo
• vi učite
• oni/one/ona uče
Since moji prijatelji refers to “they,” you use the oni/one/ona form uče to match the plural subject.
Why is engleski not in a different case, like the accusative, when it’s a direct object?
engleski (“English”) is a masculine inanimate noun. In Croatian, masculine inanimate nouns have the same form in the nominative and accusative singular. Because engleski is an inanimate direct object, it stays engleski.