Sutra ću odvesti djecu u školu.

In Croatian, the subject pronoun is often left out because the verb form already shows who the subject is.

Here, ću means I will, so Sutra ću odvesti djecu u školu already clearly means Tomorrow I will take the children to school.

You could add ja for emphasis:

Ja ću sutra odvesti djecu u školu.

That would sound more like I will take the children to school.

Ću is the 1st person singular form of the auxiliary used to make the future tense.

The full set is:

• ću = I will
• ćeš = you will
• će = he/she/it will
• ćemo = we will
• ćete = you will
• će = they will

So in this sentence, ću odvesti means will take.

Because ću is a clitic. In Croatian, clitics usually go in the second position in the sentence or clause.

So:

• Sutra ću odvesti djecu u školu. = natural
• Ja ću odvesti djecu u školu. = natural
• Djecu ću sutra odvesti u školu. = also possible

The important idea is that ću tends to come very early, after the first phrase/unit.

Odvesti is the infinitive of the verb, meaning to take / to lead / to drive someone away to a destination, depending on context.

In this sentence, it means to take someone somewhere.

Croatian often forms the future with:

auxiliary + infinitive

So:

• ću odvesti = I will take

Also, odvesti is perfective, which means it presents the action as a completed whole. Here, the speaker means they will successfully take the children to school, not just be in the process of taking them.

This is mainly about aspect.

• voditi = imperfective, ongoing/repeated process of taking/leading
• odvesti = perfective, one completed act of taking someone to a place

In a sentence like this, Croatian usually prefers the perfective verb because the meaning is a single completed future action:

Tomorrow I will take the children to school.

If you used voditi, it would sound more like a habitual or ongoing idea in the right context.

Because djecu is the accusative case, and it is used here because the children are the direct object of the verb.

• djeca = nominative, the subject form
• djecu = accusative, the object form

Compare:

• Djeca su u školi. = The children are at school.
• Odvesti ću djecu u školu. = I will take the children to school.

This word is a bit irregular, so it is one learners usually need to memorize.

Because Croatian uses different cases depending on whether there is movement toward a place or location in a place.

With u:

• u + accusative = into / to
• u + locative = in / at

So:

• u školu = to school / into the school
• u školi = in school / at school

Since the sentence expresses movement toward school, Croatian uses accusative:

u školu

Croatian has no articles like English a/an/the.

So škola can mean:

• a school
• the school
• just school

The exact meaning depends on context.

In u školu, English usually translates it naturally as to school, not necessarily to the school, especially if it means taking the children for their normal school day.

Yes. Croatian word order is fairly flexible, though not completely free.

These are all possible, with slightly different emphasis:

• Sutra ću odvesti djecu u školu. = neutral
• Djecu ću sutra odvesti u školu. = emphasis on the children
• U školu ću sutra odvesti djecu. = emphasis on to school
• Odvest ću djecu u školu sutra. = possible, though less neutral in everyday speech

The most neutral version here is the original one.

Good question. In Croatian future tense, when the auxiliary comes after the infinitive, the infinitive often drops the final -i in writing.

So you can have:

• Sutra ću odvesti djecu u školu.
• Odvest ću djecu u školu sutra.

Both are correct.

Why the difference?

• In Sutra ću odvesti..., the clitic ću is in second position, so the infinitive stays in its full form: odvesti
• In Odvest ću..., the infinitive stands directly before the auxiliary, so it appears as odvest

This is a normal future-tense pattern in Croatian.

It can cover both, depending on context.

Odvesti basically means to take someone to a destination, often with a sense of accompanying them or transporting them there. In real life, that could mean:

• walking them
• driving them
• otherwise taking them there

If you want to be specifically clear about driving, Croatian might use odvesti autom or another more explicit phrasing depending on the situation. But on its own, odvesti djecu u školu is perfectly natural and commonly understood as take the children to school.

No. Sutra means tomorrow, and it can appear in different places depending on emphasis.

For example:

• Sutra ću odvesti djecu u školu.
• Djecu ću sutra odvesti u školu.
• Ću ih sutra odvesti u školu. would be wrong because ću cannot stand first

Putting sutra first is very common and natural when you want to set the time right away.

Not really. This sentence most naturally describes one future event.

That is partly because of the perfective verb odvesti, which points to a single completed action.

If you wanted a habitual meaning, Croatian would usually use a different structure and often an imperfective verb, depending on the exact idea. So the original sentence is best understood as:

Tomorrow I will take the children to school.