Moje prebivalište je sada ovdje.

Because prebivalište is a neuter singular noun.

In Croatian, possessive words like moj / moja / moje must agree with the noun in gender, number, and case:

• moj = masculine singular
• moja = feminine singular
• moje = neuter singular

So:

• moj stan = my apartment
• moja kuća = my house
• moje prebivalište = my residence

Here, prebivalište is neuter, so moje is the correct form.

Prebivalište usually means official residence, registered permanent address, or legal place of residence.

It is a real and important Croatian word, but it sounds a bit formal or administrative. You often see it in:

• official forms
• legal contexts
• government documents
• registration procedures

In everyday speech, people might more often say things like:

• Živim ovdje. = I live here.
• Moja adresa je ovdje. = My address is here.
• Ovdje sada živim. = I live here now.

So your sentence is correct, but it sounds more like something from a formal or bureaucratic context than casual conversation.

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

The subject is moje prebivalište = my residence, which is grammatically singular, so Croatian uses singular je:

• Moje prebivalište je ovdje. = My residence is here.
• Moje prebivalište je sada ovdje. = My residence is here now / My residence is now here.

Even though moje means my, the subject is not I. The subject is the noun phrase moje prebivalište, so the verb agrees with prebivalište, not with the speaker.

It is in the nominative singular.

Why? Because prebivalište is the subject of the sentence:

• Moje prebivalište = the thing being talked about
• je = is
• sada ovdje = now here

Croatian uses the nominative for the subject of a sentence.

Also, moje is nominative too, because it agrees with prebivalište.

Ovdje is an adverb, meaning here.

Since it is an adverb, it does not change for case, gender, or number.

That is different from nouns and adjectives, which do decline. So in this sentence:

• moje prebivalište = noun phrase
• je = verb
• sada = adverb
• ovdje = adverb

Both sada and ovdje are adverbs, which is why they stay the same.

They do different jobs:

• sada = now → tells you when
• ovdje = here → tells you where

So:

• Moje prebivalište je ovdje. = My residence is here.
• Moje prebivalište je sada ovdje. = My residence is now here.

Adding sada gives the sentence a sense of current situation or change. It can suggest that the residence is here now, perhaps unlike before.

Yes. Croatian word order is more flexible than English word order, because case endings carry a lot of the grammatical information.

Your sentence:

• Moje prebivalište je sada ovdje.

Other possible orders include:

• Sada je moje prebivalište ovdje.
• Ovdje je sada moje prebivalište.
• Moje prebivalište je ovdje sada.

These versions are all understandable, but the emphasis changes slightly.

The original version sounds neutral and straightforward:

• topic: moje prebivalište
• statement: je sada ovdje

English learners often expect one fixed order, but Croatian often moves words around for focus, style, or emphasis.

Normally, no in standard Croatian.

Croatian usually keeps the present tense of biti in sentences like this:

• Moje prebivalište je ovdje.

Leaving out je would usually sound incomplete or non-standard in ordinary speech and writing.

So unlike Russian, for example, Croatian does not normally omit is in the present tense.

Yes, though in many situations they can both mean here.

A simple way to think about it:

• ovdje = here, often a bit more exact or explicit
• tu = here/there, often a bit more conversational and flexible

In many everyday situations, both can work:

• Ja sam ovdje.
• Ja sam tu.

But ovdje often feels more clearly like in this place, here, while tu can sometimes be slightly less specific or more speech-like.

In your sentence, ovdje is perfectly natural and slightly clearer in a formal statement.

A rough pronunciation guide is:

• mo-ye pre-bi-va-LEE-shte ye SA-da OV-dye

A few helpful notes:

• moje is usually pronounced roughly like MO-ye
• lj, nj are special Croatian sounds, but they do not appear here
• št in prebivalište sounds like sht
• je sounds like ye
• ovdje can be a bit tricky; roughly OV-dye

A more careful breakdown:

• Moje → MO-ye
• prebivalište → pre-bi-va-LEE-shte
• je → ye
• sada → SA-da
• ovdje → OV-dye

Croatian spelling is quite phonetic, so once you learn the sound values, pronunciation becomes much easier than in English.

Yes, but mostly in a formal, administrative, or official context.

It sounds like something you might say or read when talking about:

• legal residence
• registration
• moving your official address
• documents

In casual conversation, people would usually say something simpler, for example:

• Sad živim ovdje. = I live here now.
• Moja adresa je sada ovdje. = My address is now here.
• Sada mi je prebivalište ovdje. = My residence is here now.

So the sentence is correct Croatian, but its style is more formal than conversational.

Croatian has no articles like English a/an/the.

So Croatian simply says:

• moje prebivalište

Depending on context, that can mean:

• my residence
• the residence that is mine

Croatian relies on:

• context
• word order
• case endings
• possessives like moje

So English learners often look for a word equivalent to the, but Croatian just does not use one.