Profesorica kaže da je u rečenici "Ana čita" subjekt Ana, a predikat čita.

Profesorica is the feminine form, so it tells you the teacher/professor is female.

• profesor = a male professor/teacher
• profesorica = a female professor/teacher

Croatian often marks grammatical gender directly in nouns like this.

Kaže is the 3rd person singular present tense form of the verb kazati or reći, meaning says.

So Profesorica kaže means The female teacher says.

Croatian usually does not need a separate subject pronoun like she, because the verb ending already shows person and number.

Here da means that and introduces a subordinate clause.

So the structure is:

• Profesorica kaže = The teacher says
• da ... = that ...

This is very common in Croatian after verbs like say, think, know, and see.

Je is the 3rd person singular present of biti (to be), meaning is.

In this sentence, it connects the subject and predicate in the explanation:

• subjekt Ana
• predikat čita

So the full sense is that in the sentence Ana čita, the subject is Ana, and the predicate is čita.

Also, je is a clitic, and Croatian clitics tend to appear very early in the clause, often near the beginning. That is why you see da je rather than waiting until later.

Because the preposition u here means in, expressing location, so it requires the locative case.

• dictionary form: rečenica = sentence
• locative singular: rečenici = in the sentence

So:

• u rečenici = in the sentence

Croatian does not have articles like a or the.

So nouns such as profesorica, subjekt, predikat, and rečenica appear without articles. Whether English would use a or the depends on context, not on a separate Croatian word.

Croatian word order is more flexible than English word order.

Here the speaker is giving a grammatical analysis, so the pattern is:

• subjekt → then the word that is the subject
• predikat → then the word that is the predicate

This order sounds natural in explanations about grammar. It highlights the labels first:

• subjekt = subject
• predikat = predicate

A links two parallel pieces of information. In this sentence it is best understood as something like and, while, or whereas, depending on how literally you want to read it.

So:

• subjekt Ana, a predikat čita

means:

• the subject is Ana, and the predicate is čita

It is not exactly the same as i (and).
A often sets up a contrast or a neat comparison between two parts.

Because Croatian often omits a repeated verb when it is already understood.

A fuller version would be:

• subjekt je Ana, a predikat je čita

But that sounds heavier than necessary here. So Croatian naturally shortens it to:

• subjekt Ana, a predikat čita

This kind of omission is very common.

Yes. Ana čita is a complete sentence meaning Ana reads.

• Ana = subject
• čita = verb

In Croatian, this is perfectly normal. In fact, Croatian can often omit the subject entirely if it is clear from context, so Čita can also mean He/She is reading or reads, depending on context.

Čita is the 3rd person singular present tense of čitati, meaning to read.

So:

• čitati = to read
• čita = reads / is reading

Croatian present tense can often correspond to both simple present and present continuous in English, depending on context.

Because the sentence is identifying which word in Ana čita functions as the subject. Ana is being mentioned as the actual subject word from that example sentence.

It stays in the same form you see in the example:

• Ana = nominative subject form

So the teacher is not changing the word; she is pointing to it and saying, in effect, the subject is Ana.

Yes. They are standard grammar terms in Croatian.

They are also easy for English speakers to recognize because they resemble English and other international grammar vocabulary:

• subjekt = subject
• predikat = predicate

So this sentence is using ordinary school grammar terminology.