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Because na is being used here to mean at/on the roundabout as a location, it takes the locative case.
- dictionary form: kružni tok
- locative singular: kružnom toku
So:
- na kružnom toku = at the roundabout
This is a very normal Croatian way to express location with na.
Because kraj as a preposition, meaning near / by / next to, takes the genitive case.
- dictionary form: škola
- genitive singular: škole
So:
- kraj škole = near the school
You can think of kraj here as behaving like a preposition that always wants genitive.
This is because je is a clitic in Croatian. Clitics usually go in the second position of the clause, but that means the second unit, not necessarily the second single word.