Imamo dosta vremena.

Imamo means we have.

It is the 1st person plural present tense of the verb imati = to have.

A few present-tense forms of imati are:

• imam = I have
• imaš = you have
• ima = he/she/it has
• imamo = we have
• imate = you all have
• imaju = they have

So Imamo dosta vremena. literally starts with We have...

Because Croatian often drops subject pronouns when the verb already makes the subject clear.

The ending -mo in imamo already tells you the subject is we.

So:

• Imamo dosta vremena. = We have plenty/enough time.
• Mi imamo dosta vremena. also works, but mi is usually added only for emphasis, contrast, or clarity.

For example:

• Mi imamo dosta vremena, a oni nemaju.
  = We have plenty of time, but they don’t.

Here dosta means something like:

• enough
• plenty of
• quite a lot of

So dosta vremena can mean:

• enough time
• plenty of time
• quite a lot of time

The exact nuance depends on context.

Also, dosta is a very common everyday word in Croatian.

Because after dosta, Croatian normally uses the genitive form of the noun.

The basic dictionary form is:

• vrijeme = time

But after a quantity word like dosta, it becomes:

• dosta vremena = enough/plenty of time

So:

• vrijeme = nominative singular
• vremena = genitive singular here

This is a very common pattern in Croatian:

• dosta vode = plenty of water
• puno novca = a lot of money
• malo vremena = little time

Good question. The noun vrijeme belongs to a group of neuter nouns that use an expanded stem in many forms.

So the noun is not built only from vrijeme-. In other cases/forms, it often uses vremen-.

That is why you get:

• vrijeme
• vremena
• vremenu
• vremenom

This happens with some other nouns too, for example:

• ime = name
• imena = of the name / names

So vrijeme → vremena is not random; it is part of the noun’s declension pattern.

In this sentence, vremena is best understood as genitive singular after dosta.

That can feel confusing because vremena can also appear in plural contexts in Croatian. But here the meaning is the uncountable idea of time, not times.

So in Imamo dosta vremena, the meaning is simply:

• We have plenty/enough time

not

• We have many times

When dosta means a quantity of something, it normally goes with the genitive:

• dosta vremena = plenty of time
• dosta ljudi = plenty of people
• dosta posla = plenty of work

So yes, this is a very standard pattern.

But dosta can also be used by itself, with other meanings, for example as Enough! In that use, there is no following noun:

• Dosta! = Enough! / Stop!

Yes, absolutely.

• Imamo dovoljno vremena. = We have enough time.
• Imamo dosta vremena. = We have enough/plenty of time.

The difference is mostly nuance:

• dovoljno is often more exact and neutral: enough
• dosta often sounds a bit more conversational and can suggest quite a lot / plenty

In many situations, both are natural.

Yes.

• Imamo puno vremena. = We have a lot of time.

Compared with dosta vremena:

• puno vremena strongly suggests a lot of time
• dosta vremena can mean a lot of time, but also enough time, depending on context

So all of these are possible, but they are not always identical in nuance:

• dosta vremena
• dovoljno vremena
• puno vremena

No. Croatian word order is fairly flexible.

The most neutral version is:

• Imamo dosta vremena.

But other orders are possible for emphasis:

• Dosta vremena imamo.
• Vremena imamo dosta.

These can sound more marked or emphatic, depending on the situation.

For a learner, Imamo dosta vremena. is the safest and most natural neutral order.

Because Croatian does not have articles like English a/an and the.

So Croatian simply says:

• imamo dosta vremena

and English adds whatever article structure is natural in translation:

• we have enough time
• we have plenty of time

Croatian usually leaves definiteness to be understood from context.

Vrijeme is a neuter noun.

That matters when adjectives agree with it. For example:

• dobro vrijeme = good weather / good time
• loše vrijeme = bad weather

In your sentence, you do not see adjective agreement, but it is still useful to know that vrijeme is neuter.

A rough pronunciation guide is:

EE-ma-mo DOS-ta VRE-me-na

A few notes:

• i in imamo is like ee in see
• a is like a in father
• o is a clear short o
• r in vre- is pronounced, not silent
• Croatian spelling is quite regular, so words are usually pronounced much as they are written

So the sentence is spoken in four clear parts:

• I-ma-mo
• dos-ta
• vre-me-na