Breakdown of Cijeli vikend učimo hrvatski bez stresa.
učiti
to learn
hrvatski
Croatian
bez
without
stres
stress
Questions & Answers about Cijeli vikend učimo hrvatski bez stresa.
Why is there no word for the in cijeli vikend? In English I would say the whole weekend.
Croatian simply doesn’t have articles (a, an, the) at all.
- cijeli vikend literally just puts cijeli (whole) + vikend (weekend) together, and the context tells you if it’s a whole weekend, the whole weekend, or just all weekend.
- Native speakers never add an extra word to mark the; the language doesn’t work that way.
So cijeli vikend can be understood as the whole weekend depending on context, even though there’s no separate word for the.
What form is cijeli here? Why not cijela or cijelo?
cijeli is an adjective meaning whole / entire, and it must agree with the noun vikend in:
- gender (masculine)
- number (singular)
- case (accusative here)
vikend is a masculine noun, so the matching masculine accusative singular form of cijeli is cijeli.
Other forms you might see with different nouns:
- cijela kuća – the whole house (feminine)
- cijelo jutro – the whole morning (neuter)
Here: cijeli vikend = masculine singular accusative.