Odgovara li ti sastanak u petak u šest?

In this sentence, odgovarati means to suit, to be convenient, or to work for someone.

So Odgovara li ti sastanak... ? is literally something like:

Does the meeting suit you?

Croatian uses odgovarati in two common ways:

• odgovarati na pitanje = to answer a question
• odgovarati nekome = to suit someone / be convenient for someone

Here it is the second meaning.

The person who finds something convenient is put in the dative:

• ti = to you

And the thing that is convenient is the grammatical subject:

• sastanak = the meeting

So the structure is closer to:

• The meeting suits you than to
• You suit the meeting

Li is a particle commonly used to form a yes/no question in Croatian.

A very common pattern is:

verb + li + rest of sentence

So:

• Odgovara ti sastanak. = The meeting suits you / The meeting works for you.
• Odgovara li ti sastanak? = Does the meeting work for you?

This is a standard and natural way to ask a yes/no question.

You may also hear:

• Da li ti odgovara sastanak...?

That also means the same thing, but verb + li is often taught as a very standard Croatian pattern.

Ti is the dative singular form of ti meaning you in the informal singular sense.

Here it means:

• to you
• for you

Because odgovarati in the sense of to suit / be convenient takes the person in the dative case, Croatian says:

• odgovara mi = it suits me
• odgovara ti = it suits you
• odgovara mu / joj = it suits him / her
• odgovara nam = it suits us
• odgovara vam = it suits you (plural or formal)
• odgovara im = it suits them

So ti is not the subject here. It is the person affected by the meeting time.

Yes. Sastanak is the grammatical subject.

That can feel unusual to an English speaker, because English often phrases this idea with you as the subject:

• Does Friday at six work for you?
• Is the meeting at six on Friday okay for you?

But Croatian structures it more like:

• The meeting suits you

So:

• sastanak = subject
• odgovara = verb, agreeing with sastanak
• ti = dative object-like pronoun meaning to you / for you

That is why the verb is odgovara: third person singular, matching sastanak.

They both use u, but they refer to different kinds of time expressions:

• u petak = on Friday
• u šest = at six

Croatian often uses u with both:

• days
• clock times

So this is perfectly normal:

• u ponedjeljak = on Monday
• u utorak = on Tuesday
• u petak = on Friday
• u pet = at five
• u šest = at six
• u osam sati = at eight o’clock

So even though English uses different prepositions (on Friday, at six), Croatian uses u in both places here.

In u petak, petak is in the accusative singular.

For masculine inanimate nouns, the accusative singular is often identical to the nominative singular, so:

• nominative: petak
• accusative: petak

That is why it looks unchanged.

This expression is a standard way to say on Friday.

Compare:

• u ponedjeljak
• u četvrtak
• u petak

These are all common time expressions with u + accusative.

Yes, you can think of u šest as short for u šest sati.

Both mean:

• at six
• at six o’clock

In everyday speech, sati is often omitted when the meaning is obvious.

So these are both natural:

• Sastanak je u šest.
• Sastanak je u šest sati.

The shorter version is very common.

Croatian does not have articles like English a / an / the.

So sastanak can mean:

• a meeting
• the meeting

The exact meaning depends on context.

In this sentence, since the meaning is already known from context, English will often translate it as the meeting, but Croatian simply says sastanak.

This is one of the biggest differences from English: Croatian nouns normally appear without articles.

Yes. Ti is informal singular you.

So this sentence is appropriate when speaking to:

• a friend
• a colleague you address informally
• a family member
• someone your age or younger in a casual context

If you want to be polite or formal, you would use Vam:

• Odgovara li Vam sastanak u petak u šest?

That means the same thing, but with formal you.

So the contrast is:

• ti = informal singular you
• Vam = formal singular you, or plural you

Yes, in conversation you can often ask a yes/no question just with intonation:

• Odgovara ti sastanak u petak u šest?

That is natural in speech and sounds conversational.

But the version with li:

• Odgovara li ti sastanak u petak u šest?

is very clear, standard, and useful to learn.

You may also hear:

• Da li ti odgovara sastanak u petak u šest?

All three can be understood, but they differ slightly in style:

• Odgovara li ti... ? = standard, neat, common
• Da li ti odgovara... ? = also common
• Odgovara ti... ? = conversational, intonation-based

Yes, absolutely.

Even if the literal structure is closer to Does the meeting suit you?, natural English translations include:

• Does the meeting on Friday at six work for you?
• Is the meeting on Friday at six okay for you?
• Does Friday at six work for you for the meeting?
• Is Friday at six good for you for the meeting?

So the Croatian sentence is not stiff or strange. It is a very normal way to ask whether a proposed time is convenient.

Yes. Odgovarati is the imperfective verb, and that is the normal choice here.

When odgovarati means to suit / be convenient, the imperfective form is what you usually use in this kind of everyday question:

• Odgovara li ti...?

You are asking about general suitability or convenience, not about a single completed action.

This is different from the perfective verb odgovoriti, which means to answer in the sense of giving a reply:

• Odgovorio je na pitanje. = He answered the question.

So in this sentence, odgovara is exactly the right form and meaning.