Questions & Answers about Papuče su ispod kreveta.
Because papuče is the plural form of papuča, meaning slipper. So the sentence is talking about slippers, not just one slipper.
- singular: papuča
- plural: papuče
That is also why the verb is plural: su = are.
Su is the 3rd person plural present tense of the verb biti = to be.
So:
- ja sam = I am
- ti si = you are
- on/ona/ono je = he/she/it is
- mi smo = we are
- vi ste = you are
- oni/one/ona su = they are
Since papuče is plural, Croatian uses su.
Because the preposition ispod requires the genitive case.
The basic noun is:
- krevet = bed
Its genitive singular form is:
- kreveta
So:
- ispod kreveta = under the bed / below the bed