Learn Hardcore Croatian: Sada jedemo doručak. - Now we are eating breakfast.

sada means “now.” sad also means “now,” but sad is more colloquial and common in spoken Croatian. sada is neutral and fits equally well in formal writing or speech.

Why is the verb jedemo used here, and what does it indicate?

jedemo is the present tense, first-person plural form of the verb jesti (“to eat”). It literally means “we eat,” but in Croatian the present tense covers both English “we eat” (habitually) and “we are eating” (right now).

Why don’t we include the pronoun mi for “we” before jedemo?

Croatian is a pro-drop (null-subject) language: the verb ending -emo already tells you it’s first-person plural (“we”). You can add mi for emphasis—mi jedemo would stress “we (and not someone else) are eating”—but it’s not required.

What case is doručak in, and why doesn’t its form change as an object?

doručak (“breakfast”) is the direct object of jedemo, so it’s in the accusative case. As a masculine inanimate noun, its singular accusative form is identical to its nominative form, which is why you don’t see any ending change.

Is there a distinction in Croatian between “we eat breakfast” (habitually) and “we are eating breakfast” (right now)?