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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 20 At My Friend’s: Genive 118 / 600
Tvoj auto N je kod Ane G . (roughly) Ana has (= is using) your car.
There’s a special phrase kod kuće – it means simply at home, regardless if you’re
living in a house or not:
Nisam kod kuće G . I’m not at home.
We must not forget adjectives in G; they get quite different endings:
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gender adj. G example
fem. -e
velike ribe
big fish
neut.
velikog jezera
-og big lake
masc.
(some -eg) velikog konja
big horse
The endings -og vs. -eg in neut. and masc. follow the usual rule as in other cases in
neut. and masc. genders. Again, you will sometimes see longer endings -oga and -
ega, mainly in writing.
The G case is used when something is related to descriptions or teaching a language.
Recall that languages are usually referred to simply by adjectives:
gramatika španjolskog Spanish grammar
udžbenik hrvatskog Croatian textbook
With nouns rječnik dictionary and gramatika grammar you can also use just
adjectives before them – then adjectives change case as nouns do:
španjolska gramatika Spanish grammar
The possessive adjectives similar to moj my have a specific, shortened form in neut.
and masc. genders in the G too:
gender N G
neut. moje mog
masc. moj mojeg
This example combines a preposition, possessive adjective and a noun:
Ana N je kod moje sestre G . ‘Ana is at my sister’s.’
We can finally say your sister’s apartment. In Croatian you can make a possessive
only out of single nouns. If you want to express possession by something expressed
by more than one word, you must put them to G, regardless of the case of the
possessed noun and place them after the possessed noun. Here tvoja sestra your