Questions & Answers about Njegov rad je važan.
What kind of word is njegov, and what does it tell me grammatically?
Njegov is a possessive adjective (like his in English). Grammatically, it tells you:
- the possessor: a third‑person singular masculine or neuter (he / it)
- it agrees in gender, number, and case with the noun it describes
Here it modifies rad (a masculine singular noun in the nominative), so njegov is also masculine singular nominative.
Why is it njegov rad, and not something like rad njegov?
In normal, neutral Croatian word order, possessive adjectives and determiners come before the noun:
- njegov rad – his work
- moj prijatelj – my friend
- naš stan – our apartment
Forms like rad njegov are possible but sound more poetic, emphatic, or stylistically marked, not the everyday neutral form.
What case is rad in, and why?