Rezultat je već odlučen.

Yes. Rezultat is in the nominative singular because it is the subject of the sentence.

• rezultat = result
• masculine, inanimate noun

In Rezultat je već odlučen, the sentence is saying something about the result, so nominative is the expected case.

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

Here it works as part of a passive/result-state construction:

• Rezultat je odlučen = The result is decided / has been decided

So je links the subject rezultat with the participle/adjectival form odlučen.

Because odlučen and odlučio are different forms.

• odlučen = decided (past passive participle / adjective-like form)
• odlučio = decided in the sense he decided (past active form, masculine singular)

Compare:

• Rezultat je odlučen. = The result is decided / has been decided.
• On je odlučio. = He decided.

So in your sentence, the result is not the one doing the deciding. It is the thing that has been decided, which is why odlučen is used.

Yes, effectively it is.

Croatian often expresses the passive with:

• biti
  • passive participle

So:

• je odlučen = is decided / has been decided

This is very similar to English passive structure. Croatian also has other ways to avoid or replace the passive, but this is a standard and natural one.

That ending is part of the passive participle formation for some verbs.

The verb is odlučiti (to decide). Its passive participle is odlučen.

This form behaves a lot like an adjective, so it changes for:

• gender
• number
• case

Because rezultat is masculine singular nominative, the form is:

• odlučen

Other forms would be:

• odlučena for feminine singular
• odlučeno for neuter singular
• odlučeni / odlučene / odlučena in plural, depending on gender and style

Yes. Odlučen agrees with rezultat in gender, number, and case.

Since rezultat is:

• masculine
• singular
• nominative

the participle is also:

• odlučen

Agreement is a very important feature in Croatian, especially with adjectives and participles used adjectivally.

Već usually means already.

In this sentence, it adds the idea that the decision is complete before some expected time:

• Rezultat je odlučen. = The result is decided.
• Rezultat je već odlučen. = The result is already decided.

It often gives a sense like this has happened sooner than expected or this matter is no longer open.

Već is fairly flexible, but it commonly appears before the word or phrase it modifies, or in a natural middle position.

In your sentence:

• Rezultat je već odlučen.

this is a very normal placement.

You may also see similar placements in other sentences, but you should be careful with Croatian word order because short forms like je tend to follow special placement rules.

Because je is a clitic, and Croatian clitics usually go in the second position of the clause.

So after the first stressed element Rezultat, the clitic je comes next:

• Rezultat je već odlučen.

This second-position tendency is very important in Croatian. That is why Rezultat već je odlučen sounds unnatural or wrong in standard usage.

Normally, no, not in a standard full sentence like this.

• Rezultat već odlučen is not a normal complete standard sentence.

You need je because Croatian requires the present form of biti in this structure.

That said, in headlines, notes, or very informal shorthand, words may be dropped, but learners should treat Rezultat je već odlučen as the correct full form.

It can correspond to either, depending on context.

Croatian does not map perfectly onto English tense choices here. Je odlučen often describes a present state resulting from a completed action, so in English it may be rendered as:

• is decided
• has been decided
• sometimes even is already settled

The best English version depends on what nuance the broader context gives.

Yes, but that changes the time reference.

• Rezultat je već odlučen. = The result is already decided. / has already been decided.
• Rezultat je već bio odlučen. = The result had already been decided. / was already decided.

Adding bio moves the reference into the past.

The dictionary form you should learn first is the verb:

• odlučiti = to decide

The participle/adjectival form in the sentence is:

• odlučen = decided

If you look it up in a dictionary, you may find it either under the verb odlučiti or as an adjective/participle entry odlučen.

It can do both.

In this sentence, it is part of a verbal/passive construction:

• je odlučen

But participles like this can also behave very much like adjectives and describe a state.

So Croatian often blurs the line a little between:

• something was decided and
• something is in a decided/settled state

That is one reason English translations can vary.

A simple learner-friendly pronunciation is:

• REH-zoo-ltaht

More carefully by syllables:

• re-zul-tat

Stress is typically on the first syllable: rèzultat.

A few sound notes:

• r is trilled or tapped
• z sounds like English z
• u is like oo in food
• a is a clear a, not reduced like in English schwa

Sometimes, but the meaning changes slightly.

• odlučen = decided
• riješen = resolved, solved, settled

For a competition, election, or game, Rezultat je već odlučen suggests that the outcome is no longer in doubt.

If you said Rezultat je već riješen, that would sound less natural in many contexts, because riješen is more often used for problems, issues, or matters being solved/resolved.

So odlučen is the better fit when talking about an outcome being decided.