Sutra ću pregledati dokumentaciju prije sastanka.

It is the future tense in Croatian, often called Future I.

In this sentence:

• ću = the future auxiliary for I will
• pregledati = the infinitive to review / to look over / to inspect

So ću pregledati means I will review.

The future is commonly formed with:

• ću, ćeš, će, ćemo, ćete, će
  • infinitive

Example:

• ću pregledati = I will review
• će pregledati = he/she/it will review

Because ću is a clitic. In Croatian, clitics usually go in the second position in the clause, after the first stressed word or phrase.

So in:

• Sutra ću pregledati dokumentaciju prije sastanka.

Sutra comes first, and ću comes right after it.

This is very normal Croatian word order.

A native English speaker may expect something more like I will tomorrow review..., but Croatian does not work that way. The auxiliary often appears very early in the sentence.

Yes, absolutely.

That is another very common way to form the future tense. When the future auxiliary comes after the infinitive, the infinitive usually loses its final -i:

• pregledati + ću → pregledat ću

So these are both correct:

• Sutra ću pregledati dokumentaciju prije sastanka.
• Sutra pregledat ću dokumentaciju prije sastanka. — this one is not the normal choice
• Pregledat ću dokumentaciju sutra prije sastanka.

The most natural alternatives are usually:

• Sutra ću pregledati dokumentaciju prije sastanka.
• Pregledat ću dokumentaciju sutra prije sastanka.

Because Croatian often omits subject pronouns when they are already clear from the verb form.

Here, ću already tells you the subject is I. So ja is unnecessary unless you want emphasis or contrast.

Compare:

• Sutra ću pregledati dokumentaciju. = neutral, natural
• Ja ću sutra pregledati dokumentaciju. = I will review the documentation, possibly contrasting with someone else

This is different from English, where you normally must say I.

Because dokumentaciju is in the accusative case, which is used here for the direct object of the verb.

The basic dictionary form is:

• dokumentacija = nominative singular

But after a verb like pregledati, the thing being reviewed is the direct object, so Croatian uses the accusative:

• pregledati dokumentaciju

For many feminine nouns ending in -a, the accusative singular ends in -u:

• dokumentacija → dokumentaciju
• knjiga → knjigu

Usually no.

Dokumentacija normally means documentation, paperwork, or a set/body of documents, not just one single document.

So this sentence suggests reviewing the relevant paperwork or documentation as a whole.

If you wanted to talk about individual documents, you might use:

• dokument = document
• dokumenti = documents

So:

• pregledati dokumentaciju = review the documentation
• pregledati dokumente = review the documents

Because the preposition prije requires the genitive case.

The base form is:

• sastanak = meeting

But after prije, it changes to the genitive singular:

• prije sastanka = before the meeting / before a meeting

So this is a case pattern you need to learn with the preposition:

• prije + genitive

Other common time expressions work similarly with fixed case patterns, so it is useful to learn prepositions together with the case they require.

Yes, pregledati is a perfective verb.

That matters because perfective verbs usually describe an action as a whole, often with a sense of completion. In this sentence, it suggests that the speaker will finish reviewing the documentation.

A related imperfective verb is:

• pregledavati

Very roughly:

• pregledati = review completely / look through
• pregledavati = be reviewing / review repeatedly or over time

So this sentence sounds like a single completed future task, which fits very well with sutra and prije sastanka.

Because Croatian does not have articles like English the and a.

So:

• dokumentaciju could mean the documentation or just documentation
• prije sastanka could mean before the meeting or before a meeting

The exact meaning usually comes from context.

This is one of the big differences from English: Croatian leaves definiteness unstated unless something else in the sentence makes it clear.

Yes, Croatian word order is fairly flexible, but the emphasis changes.

For example:

• Sutra ću pregledati dokumentaciju prije sastanka. = neutral
• Dokumentaciju ću pregledati sutra prije sastanka. = puts more focus on dokumentaciju
• Prije sastanka ću pregledati dokumentaciju. = puts more focus on before the meeting

However, not every possible order sounds equally natural, and clitics like ću still tend to stay near the beginning, usually in second position.

So the sentence you were given is a very natural standard version.

ću is pronounced roughly like a very soft chu, but the sound ć is softer than English ch.

A rough learner-friendly approximation is:

• ću ≈ chyoo or soft choo

The vowel u sounds like oo in food.

English does not have an exact equivalent of ć, so an approximation is normal at first. The important thing is not to make it too hard or too heavy.

In the sentence, ću is short and unstressed:

• Sutra ću pregledati...

Starting with Sutra puts the time reference first: tomorrow is the frame for the whole sentence.

This is very natural in Croatian, especially when the speaker wants to establish when something will happen before giving the rest of the information.

So the structure is basically:

• When? → Sutra
• What will I do? → ću pregledati dokumentaciju
• By when / before what? → prije sastanka

That makes the sentence sound organized and natural.