Gosti dolaze jedan po jedan.

The guests are arriving one by one.

Breakdown of Gosti dolaze jedan po jedan.

• gost: guest
• dolaziti: to arrive
• jedan po jedan: one by one

Questions & Answers about Gosti dolaze jedan po jedan.

Why is it gosti and not goste?

Because gosti is the nominative plural form, and the nominative is used for the subject of the sentence.

Here, gosti are the ones doing the action of arriving, so nominative is required.

• gost = guest
• gosti = guests

By contrast, goste is usually the accusative plural, which you would use when guests are the object of a verb, for example:

• Vidim goste. = I see the guests.

So in Gosti dolaze..., gosti is correct because the guests are the subject.

Why is the verb dolaze and not dolazi?

Because the subject gosti is plural, so the verb must also be plural.

• dolazi = he/she/it comes or is coming
• dolaze = they come or are coming

Since gosti means guests (more than one), Croatian uses:

• Gosti dolaze. = The guests are coming / The guests come.

So this is just normal subject-verb agreement.

What is the basic form of dolaze?