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Basic Croatian: 45 Nouns for Small and Dear

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A blog with introduction and a course of Croatian language. 45 Nouns for Small and Dear. Croatian (as many other languages do) has mechanisms for creating nouns standing for miniature versions of things. Those words are often applied to babies, children, and parts of them, and therefore stand for "cute" and "dear" things as well. For instance, in Croatian you can say that a baby has a. Nose", but people mostly say that it has a. Little nose". Likewise, it has a. Head", but people prefer. To m-nouns, -#.

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Basic Croatian: 84 Abbreviations, Phrases and Euphemisms

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A blog with introduction and a course of Croatian language. 84 Abbreviations, Phrases and Euphemisms. Every language has many idiomatic phrases, constructs that have unexpected meanings. Generally they cannot be translated from language to language. The following words have often-seen abbreviations, which do not change through cases and singular/plural. Abbreviations having more than one letter end with a period (.), and one-letter abbreviations do not:. Meaning (Engl. abbr.). For example" (e.g.). Spend ...

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Basic Croatian: 1 Basic Features

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A blog with introduction and a course of Croatian language. Croatian is a Slavic. Language. It's almost the same as Serbian or Bosnian, and similar to Czech and Russian. Its grammar resembles Old Greek and Latin, so it's quite complex. Relation to Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin. Basically, you can say that you almost learn 4 languages with one effort. It's incredible that some web sites offering (costly) language courses say:. We will also see that 'Croatian' is a standard language, and spoken variants...

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Basic Croatian: 14 Past Tense

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A blog with introduction and a course of Croatian language. 8226; • • Easy Croatian. 8226; • • Review: Present Tense. Croatian forms the past tense using present forms of verb "to be" (. And something similar to an adjective, called past participle. I said." (a male speaker). I said." (a female speaker). This poses a small problem when translating to and from Croatian. As with other such sentences, personal pronouns are normally omitted:. Rekäo säm. Rekla säm. Must be at the second place in a sentence.

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Basic Croatian: 22 Infinitive and Future Tense

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A blog with introduction and a course of Croatian language. 22 Infinitive and Future Tense. 8226; • • Review: Past Tense. Check in Easy Croatian. 31 Wishes and Intentions. Now I'm going to describe the future tense in Croatian. Similar to the past tense, it's a compound tense, actually a phrase consisting of two words:. Present of the verb. In a short form;. The form of a verb called 'infinitive'. I can drink.", "I am able to drink.". Lit "I know to write." = "I know how to write.". Etc) and add a -.

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Basic Croatian: Introduction

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A blog with introduction and a course of Croatian language. At this moment, I recommend that you check my other blog, Easy Croatian. First It's simpler, has sound clips, deals with pronunciation from the start, etc., and use this blog as supplemental information only. This is my Croatian language blog. I have been trying to put together a language blog for some time. I have collected some materials, and I'll be posting some Croatian lessons here. Simplify things wherever possible. Beware, Croatian is not.

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Basic Croatian: 39 Common Verbs and Aspect Patterns

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A blog with introduction and a course of Croatian language. 39 Common Verbs and Aspect Patterns. 8226; • • Review: Likes, Wishes and Purpose. I'm going to describe 5 important 'verb families' — each 'family' consists of a base verb with verbs derived from it, either perfective or with a shift in meaning. You'll see how verbs start from a basic meaning and then attain a specialized one. The whole verb 'family' follows the same pattern. Take" are quite important; verbs derived from. Stavljam meso u lonac.

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Basic Croatian: 87 Common Noun Suffixes

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A blog with introduction and a course of Croatian language. 87 Common Noun Suffixes. 8226; • • Review: Penultimate Stress. There's a number of common suffixes to create nouns; I will introduce some of them here. Adding them is. A regular process and meanings can be sometimes unexpected. Croatian sometimes expresses "ground", "area" (as in "playground") with the suffix -. Is always long), attached to the infinitive verb base; for instance:. Ram, park í. Certain derived nouns have specific meanings:. 8211;...

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Basic Croatian: 16 Numbers and Time

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A blog with introduction and a course of Croatian language. 16 Numbers and Time. 8226; • • Review: Quantities and Existence. Now we tackle an important issue — numbers. Croatian cardinal numbers (there are also ordinal numbers: "first", "second"; they will be discussed later) are a diverse assembly of words: some behave as adjectives, some as nouns, and some others even differently. This chapter is hard, don't expect to get it at once. N "village", and. F "cow", and the adjective. Moj jedän veliki konj.