Vani pada kiša.

rain

Breakdown of Vani pada kiša.

• padati: to rain
• vani: outside

Questions & Answers about Vani pada kiša.

Why doesn’t the Croatian sentence Vani pada kiša have a word for “it”, like “it is raining outside”?

In Croatian, subject pronouns (like I, you, he, it) are usually dropped because the verb ending already shows who or what is doing the action.

For weather expressions, Croatian normally does not use a dummy subject like English it at all. So instead of something like It rains, Croatian just says Pada kiša or simply Pada (literally: rains / is falling).

So:

• It is raining outside. → Vani pada kiša. (literally: Outside falls rain.)
• There is no separate word for “it” in such sentences; it’s simply not needed.

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