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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 25 Plural 147 / 600
difference is that Croatian uses a separate word se², and of course, Swedish, Danish
and Norwegian have (like English) mandatory pronouns with verbs.
We can also say (we use oni for an all-male or mixed group):
Oni N se vole. They love each other.
There’s another way to express the mutuality, by a small phrase jedan drugog (all
male/mixed) or jedna drugu (all-female). Both literally mean one another:
Ana N i Ivan N vole jedan drugog. Ana and Ivan love one another.
We would use the plural form one only for all-female groups.
This is maybe the right place to describe ‘impersonal plurals’ – like in the English
sentence they’re building a new road. This is exactly the same in Croatian, but you
have to leave the pronoun out:
Grade novu cestu A . They’re building a new road. (cannot add oni)
If you would add oni, it would then be a reference to some particular, known group
of people, e.g. when you see a group of workers and explain what they’re doing. In
the past, use masc. pl.:
Gradili su novu cestu A . They were building a new road.
What about expressing states and properties, like birds are beautiful? We must first
be able to put adjectives to plural as well, both to nominative and accusative! Since
adjectives always follow the noun pattern, accusative will be equal to nom. (we can
list both together as NA-pl). Even better, for feminine and neuter adjectives, endings
will actually be the same as for nouns:
gender adj. NA-pl example
fem. -e
velike ribe
big fishes
neut. -a
velika jezera
big lakes
Then, we need the pres-3pl form of the verb to be:
biti (je² +) be → su²
So now we can say:
Ptice N su lijepe N . Birds are beautiful.
Pisma N su duga N . The letters are long.
And we are able to say:
To N su ptice N . These are birds. (lit. ‘birds are that.’)
Pay attention that in demonstrative sentences, to stays in singular, unlike in English.