Osim muzeja, u našem gradu na trgu su i dva mala kazališta.

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Breakdown of Osim muzeja, u našem gradu na trgu su i dva mala kazališta.

• mali: small
• grad: city
• u: in

Questions & Answers about Osim muzeja, u našem gradu na trgu su i dva mala kazališta.

What exactly does Osim mean here? Is it “besides” or “except” the museum?

Osim can mean both:

• besides / in addition to
• except (for)

In this sentence:

Osim muzeja, u našem gradu na trgu su i dva mala kazališta.

the meaning is “besides the museum / in addition to the museum”.
Context makes it clear the speaker is adding information, not excluding the museum.

If you wanted the clearly “except” meaning, you would usually show it more explicitly in context, for example:

• Osim muzeja, ništa drugo nema na trgu. – Except for the museum, there is nothing else on the square.

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Why is it muzeja and not muzej after Osim?

Because osim is a preposition that normally takes the genitive case.

• muzej – nominative (dictionary form)
• muzeja – genitive singular (also genitive plural, but here we mean one museum)

So:

• osim muzeja = “apart from the museum / besides the museum / except the museum”

You will see this pattern with many prepositions in Croatian, for example:

• bez muzeja – without the museum (also genitive)
• do muzeja – to / up to the museum (genitive)

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