Word
Svjedok krađe zna tko je pokušao ukrasti bicikl.
Meaning
The witness to the theft knows who tried to steal the bicycle.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Svjedok krađe zna tko je pokušao ukrasti bicikl.
biti
to be
znati
to know
tko
who
pokušati
to try
Questions & Answers about Svjedok krađe zna tko je pokušao ukrasti bicikl.
Why is krađe in that form? Why not krađa?
Because krađe is the genitive singular of krađa (theft).
In svjedok krađe, Croatian uses the genitive after a noun to show a relationship like:
- svjedok nesreće = witness of the accident
- uzrok problema = cause of the problem
- početak filma = beginning of the film
So svjedok krađe literally means witness of the theft, or more naturally in English, a witness to the theft.
Why is there no word for the or a in this sentence?
Croatian does not have articles like English a/an and the.
So:
- svjedok can mean a witness or the witness
- bicikl can mean a bicycle or the bicycle
The exact meaning depends on context. In a real conversation, people would understand from the situation whether the speaker means a specific witness or bicycle.
What kind of phrase is tko je pokušao ukrasti bicikl?