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different:
Dosadan sam. I’m boring. (not how you feel!)
With the adverb loše, there’s a slightly shifted meaning when used with DL:
Ani DL je loše. Ana is sick.
It’s interesting that German uses exactly the same construction: in sentences like
these, the pronoun mir is in the German Dative case, and the verb is in the 3rd
person:
Mir ist kalt.
Mir ist langweilig. (German)
Mir ist schlecht.
All three sentences translate word-for-word from Croatian, the only difference is
word order, which follows quite different rules in German.
You can freely use adverbs of intensity, including the prefix pre-:
Prevruće nam DL je. It’s too hot ‘to us’. (= for us)
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Jako mi DL je dosadno. I’m very bored.
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There's also a verb that means feel:
osjećati feel
When used just with an object in A, it means feel something, an object, or something
more abstract, e.g. pain. But when used with a se² and an adverb, it describes how
someone feels:
Ana N se osjeća odlično. Ana feels great.
Osjećam se grozno. I feel terrible.
This verb with se² is used only for internal states. You cannot say “osjećam se
bučno” if you’re in a loud environment, but you can say osjećam se loše if you don’t
feel well. Note that for some feelings, there is more than one way to express them:
Umoran sam. I’m tired.
Osjećam se umorno. I feel tired.
To ask how someone feels, use kako, but don’t forget se²:
Kako se osjećaš? How do you feel?
— Dobro. Alright. (‘Good.’)
There’s an interesting way to ask about ‘situation’:
Kako je? lit. ‘How is it?’
Kako ide? lit. ‘How is it going?’
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Such questions mostly mean how are you (doing). However, if we add a place, then
we’re asking about a general information somewhere: