Na e-mail mi je stigla potvrda da je narudžba zaprimljena.

Na e-mail is a very common Croatian way to express destination/recipient medium: something arrives to your email inbox/address. With na you typically use:

• accusative to show movement/arrival “onto/to” something → na e-mail
• locative to show location “on/in” something → na e-mailu (less common in this exact “arrived” phrasing)

So Na e-mail mi je stigla potvrda = “A confirmation arrived to my email.”

Yes. mi is the dative clitic meaning to me / for me. It marks the recipient:

• stigla mi je potvrda = “a confirmation arrived to me” This is extremely common with verbs of coming/arriving (stići, doći, etc.).

Croatian uses clitics (short unstressed words like mi, je) that must go in the so‑called second position of the clause. The typical clitic order here is:

• mi (dative pronoun) + je (auxiliary of biti)

So you get:

• Na e-mail mi je stigla potvrda. Not: Na e-mail stigla mi je potvrda (possible, but different emphasis) and not: Na e-mail mi stigla je potvrda (unnatural).

Because the subject is potvrda (“confirmation”), which is feminine singular, so the past participle agrees:

• potvrda (f.) → stigla If the subject were masculine/neuter, you’d change it:
• e-mail (m.) → stigao je e-mail
• pismo (n.) → stiglo je pismo

It’s the perfect tense (past), formed with:

• present of biti (auxiliary) + past participle Here:
• je
  • stigla = “has arrived / arrived”

Croatian uses this perfect tense constantly in everyday speech for past events.

Yes. Croatian word order is flexible, and changes emphasis. Common variants:

• Na e-mail mi je stigla potvrda... (emphasizes where it arrived)
• Potvrda mi je stigla na e-mail... (emphasizes the confirmation)
• Stigla mi je potvrda na e-mail... (emphasizes the arrival)

The clitics (mi je) still tend to stay in second position.

da introduces a subordinate clause meaning that:

• potvrda da je narudžba zaprimljena = “a confirmation that the order has been received”

So the whole phrase potvrda da... works like “confirmation that …”.

Because that’s a new clause with its own verb. Inside the da-clause, je is the present tense of biti (“is/has been”) used to build a passive:

• narudžba je zaprimljena = “the order is received / has been received”

So there are two separate verbs:

• main clause: mi je stigla (arrived)
• subordinate clause: je zaprimljena (is/has been received)

Yes, it’s passive: zaprimljena is a past passive participle agreeing with narudžba (feminine). Active alternatives include:

• (Oni) su zaprimili narudžbu. = “They received the order.”
• Zaprimili smo narudžbu. = “We received the order.”

The passive is common in formal/business messages because it focuses on the order, not the person/company.

Agreement again: narudžba is feminine singular, so the participle must be feminine singular:

• narudžba (f.) → zaprimljena If it were masculine/neuter:
• paket (m.) → zaprimljen
• pismo (n.) → zaprimljeno

Often they’re close in meaning (“received”), but:

• zaprimiti / zaprimljen is more formal/administrative (“to register/accept/receive into the system”)
• primiti / primljen is more general/everyday (“to receive”)

In many order-confirmation contexts, both can work, but zaprimljena sounds more official.