| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Riba | Fish Serbo-Croatian has gendered word, Riba is female because ends with -a, every noun that ends in -a is but there are a few exceptions |
| Stol | Table Any word that ends in a consonant (a letter that isn't A E I O U) is masculine, but there are a few exceptions |
| Dijete | Child Any word that ends in -o or -e is neuter |
| I see blood | Vidim krv Certain words are gendered in a way that doesn't match the letter they end with, there are around 100 of them and they are mostly male sounding nouns that are actually female: krv (blood), noć (night), kost (bone) etc... |
| The fish is big | Riba je velika Description words must be changed to the gender of the word they describe, in this sentence, since the word 'velik-' describes that the fish is big, an -a is added to it |
| The big fish is eating bread | Velika riba jede kruh |
| The house is big | Kuća je velika |
| The sun isn't strong | Sunce nije jako When the noun is neuter, an -o is attached to the description word |
| The restaurant is expensive | Restoran je skup When the noun is male, nothing is attached to the description word |
| Ana is healthy | Ana je zdrava |
| He's tall | visok je This sentence might seem weird because literally translated it would be "tall is", but considering that there is a male description word, you can guess that there is a male person or object being discussed, so a more complete translation would be closer to "(he)tall is" |
| She's tall | visoka je Previous rule also applies to both female and neuter words |
| It's tall | Visoko je |
| It is big (refering to a house) | Ona je velika Because nouns have gender in Serbo-Croatian, you still have to refer to them by their respective pronoun, a bottle would be a "she" a table would be a "he" and the sun would be an "it" |
| The river is deep | Rijeka je duboka |
| The fast (male) cat is still playing | Brz mačak se još igra |
| Dinner is ready | Ručak je gotov |
| Little kitten | Mali mačić Note: some adjectives always have an -i attached to them before a male noun, like this one |
| The restaurant is too expensive | Restoran je preskup Pre- - too (much): preskupo (too expensive), preveliko (too big), prebrzo (too small)... |
| Dad is healthy | Tata je zdrav Despite ending in -a, tata refers to a male figure, therefore its masculine |
| The night is long | Noć je duga Noć is an exception, despite having a masculine ending, its feminine, so the description word has a feminine ending |
| The fish is really big | Riba je jako velika You can intensify adjectives with words like: jako, dosta, zbilja... But you cant change them according to the gender of the noun, cause they don't intensify the NOUN they intensify the DESCRIPTION WORD |
| The train is terribly slow | Voz je strašno spor |
| The river is quite deep | Rijeka je dosta duboka |
| The hotel is full | Hotel je pun |
| The glass is full | Čaša je puna |
| The beach is very nice | Plaža je jako lijepa |
| The beer is cheap | Pivo je jeftino |
| She is fast | Brza je |
| It's ugly | Ružno je |