Odgovara li ti sastanak u petak u šest?

you (informal singular)

Breakdown of Odgovara li ti sastanak u petak u šest?

• u: at
• u: on
• šest: six

Questions & Answers about Odgovara li ti sastanak u petak u šest?

What does odgovara mean here? I thought odgovoriti / odgovarati meant to answer.

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

Why is there li after odgovara?