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pronoun represents!
This is very often used to express that something belongs to someone, using
possessive adjectives:
To N je moje N . It’s mine.
(Recall that moj gets -e in neuter, since it ends in a Croatian-specific consonant.)
Croatian has the 3rd person neuter pronoun ono it, but demonstrative
adjective/pronoun in the neuter gender – to – prevails in use instead.
You can use to (or ovo, etc.), with the verb zvati (zove) call + se² to express what is
the name or word for something:
Ovo N se zove džep N . This is called a pocket.
zvati
To ask what is something called, use kako how (again, as in Spanish or Italian):
Kako se to N zove (na hrvatskom DL )? What is that called (in Croatian)?
zvati
Although Croatian has no articles – words like English the, a or an – you can use taj
(t-) or onaj (on-) as an adjective, if you want to emphasize that something is strictly
defined, already known:
Čekam taj vlak A . I’m waiting for that train.
Ona žena N je ovdje. That/The woman is here.
The opposite can be expressed with two adjectives that express that something is
not really known:
jedan (jedn-) one neki some
For instance:
Neka žena N je ovdje. A woman is here. (or some woman...)
The adjective jedan (jedn-) one also serves as a number – for instance, you can say
that you have one son (recall, masculine nouns standing for people or animals
change in accusative):
Imam jednog sina A . I have one son. (or a son)
In Croatian, demonstrative and possessive adjectives can be combined freely, unlike
in English, so you can say:
jedna moja knjiga one of my books (lit. ‘one my book’)
jedan moj prijatelj one of my (male) friends (lit. ‘one my friend’)
ta moja knjiga lit. ‘that my book’
The last phrase is hard to translate, but the meaning is obvious: a specific book that
belongs to me. For example:
Poznaješ jednog mog dobrog prijatelja A . You know a good friend of poznavati
mine. (lit. ‘one my good friend’)