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If such short nouns end in a Croatian-specific letter, they get -evi instead:
broj number → brojevi
ključ key → ključevi
miš mouse → miševi
nož knife → noževi
(It’s the same principle as for -om vs. -em for change of adjectives in masc. and
neuter genders.)
If one-syllable nouns end in a -c (it’s a Croatian-specific letter!) it turns into a č
before -evi:
princ prince → prinčevi
zec rabbit, bunny → zečevi
A few one-syllable nouns do not end in a Croatian-specific letter, but get -evi
nevertheless:
car emperor → carevi sir cheese → sirevi
A couple of nouns often have -evi in everyday, colloquial communication, but
according to the rules of Standard Croatian, -ovi is preferred (I personally use -evi)®:
kut angle, corner ®
nos nose
pojas belt
put way
(The noun pojas belt, despite having two syllables, gets longer endings; more nouns
like that are listed below.)
Furthermore, there are a few exceptions: certain common one-syllable nouns get
simply an -i; they are listed here:
crv worm
đak pupil
dan day
gost guest
gumb button ®
keks biscuit
konj horse
mrav ant
pas (ps-) dog
I haven’t listed prst finger/toe and zub tooth since we have already learned them.
The noun đak gets the same alternation as putnik, so its N-pl is đaci.
There’s a quite odd noun that has different plural forms depending on its meaning:
sat hour → sati hours
sat clock, watch → satovi clocks, watches
The noun bol pain is usually feminine ®, but in plural, the masculine bolovi is quite
frequent, while regular boli is usually used for non-physical pains, and in poetry:
bolovi m (physical)
bol f pain → pl.
boli f (emotional, poetic)
There are nouns that have two syllables in nominative, but a one-syllable case-base.
Most such nouns get short endings, like any other two-syllable nouns:
glumac (glumc-) actor → glumci