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Nouns, verbs and adjectives | () Nouns are thing words, they can either be people, places or things: Cat, America, David, sorrow, hamburger... ; Verbs are actions: to knit, do dance, to fight, to love, to run... ; Adjectives are description words: Red, big, ugly, sad, quick, fat, powerful... |
I'm eating a red apple | Jedem crvenu jabuku If you want to put an adjective before a noun in accusative, you also gotta make the adjective accusative, and it's quite simple, just add a -u to the adjective, just how you add -u to the noun itself |
I have red blood | Imam crvenu krv 'krv' is female, consider it an exception, yet the adjective still takes an -u |
I have a black cat | Imam crnu mačku |
I see a white dog | Vidim bijelog psa For male nouns, the adjective gets -og in the accusative |
I see the big wall | Vidim veliki zid Inanimate nouns such as: wall, bottle, table, window get the '-i' ending, but animate nouns like: horse, dog, human, dinosaur, ghost, robot, worm all get '-og' |
I'm driving a black car | Vozim crno auto For neuter accusative adjectives, dont add anything |
I see the yellow sun | Vidim žuto sunce |
I see a brown horse | Vidim smeđeg konja Animate MALE nouns (living things) get an '-a' in the accusative: Konja, dinosaura, čovjeka... Also, sometimes you will see -eg instead of -og like in the previous example sentence (If its one of those adjectives that end in -e when describing a neuter noun) |
I see an ugly goblin | Vidim ružnog goblina |
The horse is mine | Konj je moj New useful word: moj (mine), it changes depending on gender of whatever it possesses: moj konj, moje auto, moja jabuka |
My mom is waiting | Moja mama čeka |
My car is broken | Moje auto je pokvareno Moje - moj (neuter) |
Ana is driving my brother to work | Ana vozi mog brata na posao Gendered accusatives also apply to "moj"; in this instance, -og is added to "moj" somewhere in there... (note: there is also a distinction between animacy.) (note2: you can use mojeg instead of mog but its rare) |
You know my wife (polite) | Poznajete moju ženu moj - moju (feminine accusative); just add -u again lol |
He is my friend | On je moj prijatelj |
He sees my friend | On vidi mog prijatelja |
I have a wife | Imam ženu Imati - to have |
I don't have a dog | Nemam psa Nemati - to not have |
We're waiting for my sister | Čekamo moju sestru |
We're going to a big beach tomorrow | Sutra idemo na veliku plažu |
Igor is drinking cold beer | Igor pije hladno pivo |
Damir has a little brother | Damir ima malog brata |
We have a black cat | Imamo crnu mačku |
She is driving my car | Ona vozi moje auto |
We are going to my apartment | Idemo u moj stan |
I'm eating a cold pizza | Jedem hladnu pizzu NEVER SAY PICA |