Questions & Answers about Danas svi dolaze na sastanak osim njega.
What does each word in Danas svi dolaze na sastanak osim njega mean?
A word-by-word breakdown:
- Danas = today
- svi = everyone / all
- dolaze = are coming / come
- na = to / onto, but here it means to in the sense of going to an event
- sastanak = meeting
- osim = except
- njega = him
So the full sentence means: Today everyone is coming to the meeting except him.
Why is dolaze plural?
Because the subject is svi, which means everyone / all people, and that is grammatically plural in Croatian.
- svi dolaze = everyone is coming / all are coming
Even though English often uses singular-looking everyone, Croatian uses the plural idea here.
Why is it svi and not sve or svatko?