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Mašta means imagination.
Grammatically:
- It’s a noun, feminine gender, singular: mašta (Nominative singular).
- In this sentence it is the subject:
- Mašta (subject)
- im pomaže (helps them)
You could also say Njihova mašta im pomaže = Their imagination helps them, but it’s not necessary; mašta alone is natural and clear in Croatian.
Both im and ih are pronouns meaning them, but they are different cases:
- im = to them → dative (indirect object)
- ih = them → accusative (direct object)
The verb pomoći / pomagati (to help) is used with the dative in Croatian:
- (Netko) pomaže kome? → helps whom? → im (to them)
So:
- Mašta im pomaže = Imagination helps them (literally: Imagination to-them helps).
Using ih here would be ungrammatical:
- ✗ → wrong.