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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 24 Past Tense 144 / 600

pruge means stripe, but also track (e.g. railroad). This verse has also zbog nje

because of her, where a stressed form of the pronoun is used. Stressed pronouns

will be explained in the following chapters.

In the chorus, the word rupica means small hole (while rupa is just hole): Croatian

has many words for small versions of things. They will be described in 85 Small and

Cute: Diminutives.

Imala je lijepu rupicu A na bradi DL She had a nice little hole on her chin

znala je da grebe, znala je da gladi she used to scratch, she used to stroke

imala je lijepu rupicu A na bradi DL she had a nice little hole on her chin

drhtali smo složno, smeteni N i mladi N we shivered in unison, confused and young

(Momčilo Popadić)

The phrase znala je da grebe is a bit ambiguous; it would be more common to say

znala je grebati, which is still ambiguous; the intended meaning is likely she used to

scratch; this will be explained in 32 Love and Like.

You can find various performances on YouTube.

• Exercise

Fill in the right forms of verbs and pronouns:

Ana ____(a) __________(b). Ana was sleeping.

Goranu ____(c) __________(d) hladno. Goran was cold.

______(e) ____(f) ____(g) žao. They were sorry.

Ivan ____(h) jučer __________(i) juhu. Ivan cooked a soup yesterday.

______(j) ____(k) dosadno. It was boring.

____________(l) ____(m) ____(n). We were waiting for you. (we = all male/mixed)

____________(o) ____(p) kiša. It was raining.

________(q) ____(r) noć. It was night.

Check answers here.

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