Word
Radijski prijemnik, pištaljka i komplet za hitne slučajeve su ovdje.
Meaning
The radio receiver, whistle, and emergency kit are here.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Radijski prijemnik, pištaljka i komplet za hitne slučajeve su ovdje.
biti
to be
ovdje
here
i
and
radijski prijemnik
radio receiver
Questions & Answers about Radijski prijemnik, pištaljka i komplet za hitne slučajeve su ovdje.
Why is the verb su and not je?
Because the subject is a list of three things:
- radijski prijemnik
- pištaljka
- komplet za hitne slučajeve
Together, they form a plural subject, so Croatian uses the plural form of to be:
- je = is (singular)
- su = are (plural)
So ... su ovdje means ... are here.
What case are radijski prijemnik, pištaljka, and komplet in?
They are in the nominative case, because they are the subject of the sentence — the things that are here.
You can think of the basic structure as:
- [subject] + su + ovdje
- [these things] + are + here
So:
- radijski prijemnik = nominative singular
- pištaljka = nominative singular
- komplet = nominative singular
Even though each noun is singular, the whole list is plural, which is why the verb is su.
Why is it za hitne slučajeve? What case is hitne slučajeve?