Ne žurim se jer imamo još vremena.

Žurim is the 1st person singular present tense form of žuriti se. It means I hurry / I am hurrying / I am in a hurry, depending on context.

In Croatian, the present tense often covers both English simple present and present continuous, so Ne žurim se can naturally mean I'm not hurrying or I'm not in a hurry.

Because the verb is normally learned as žuriti se, not just žuriti.

Here, se is not literally myself. It is part of a reflexive verb, and many Croatian verbs work this way. So you should think of žuriti se as a single unit meaning to hurry / to be in a hurry.

Usually, no—not if you want the meaning I'm not hurrying / I'm not in a hurry.

The natural form is žuriti se. Without se, the sentence sounds incomplete or unnatural for this meaning.

Croatian often leaves out subject pronouns because the verb ending already shows the subject.

• žurim = I am hurrying
• imamo = we have

So ja and mi are not necessary unless you want extra emphasis or contrast.

Because the subject changes in the second clause.

• Ne žurim se = I am not hurrying
• jer imamo još vremena = because we still have time

This is completely normal. The speaker is talking about their own action in the first clause and about a shared situation in the second.

Jer means because.

It introduces the reason:

• Ne žurim se = I’m not hurrying
• jer imamo još vremena = because we still have time

A common alternative is zato što, which also means because. In this sentence, jer is short, natural, and very common.

Here još means something like still or more time left.

So imamo još vremena means:

• we still have time
• we have some more time left

In other sentences, još can also mean more, another, or yet, depending on context.

Because Croatian often uses the genitive after expressions of quantity or an indefinite amount.

Here, vremena is the genitive singular of vrijeme.

So:

• vrijeme = time (basic dictionary form)
• vremena = of time / some time / enough time, depending on structure

The expression imati vremena is the normal way to say to have time in the sense of to have time available.

That is why imamo još vremena sounds natural, while imamo još vrijeme would not.

In Croatian, negation is usually formed with the separate word ne placed before the verb:

• žurim se = I’m hurrying
• ne žurim se = I’m not hurrying

Some negative forms are written together, such as nemam or nisam, but žurim does not work that way.

Because se follows Croatian clitic placement rules.

In a simple sentence like this, the natural order is:

• ne + verb + se

So:

• Ne žurim se = correct
• Ne se žurim = incorrect

This is something you will see often with reflexive verbs.

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

For example, you could also say:

• Jer imamo još vremena, ne žurim se.
• Ne žurim se, jer imamo još vremena.

These mean the same thing, though the emphasis may change a little.

What should stay stable is the reflexive structure žurim se and the natural placement of se.

A few useful ones here are:

• ž = like the s in measure
• š = like sh in shoe
• j = like y in yes

So roughly:

• žurim sounds like zhu-rim
• još sounds like yosh
• jer sounds like yer