Questions & Answers about Njena temperatura je danas niža nego jučer.
Why is it njena and not njezin(a)?
Both njena and njezina mean her in Croatian.
- njena is very common in everyday speech.
- njezina is also correct and is often preferred in more formal standard Croatian.
Here, njena agrees with temperatura, which is:
- feminine
- singular
- nominative
So the full phrase njena temperatura means her temperature.
Why is temperatura in this form?
Temperatura is the subject of the sentence, so it is in the nominative case.
The sentence structure is basically:
- Njena temperatura = the subject
- je = is
- danas niža nego jučer = the rest of the predicate
Because temperatura is the thing being described, it stays in its basic dictionary form here.
What does je do in the sentence?