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lonac (lonc-) pot → lonci
nokat (nokt-) fingernail/toenail → nokti
However, a few such nouns get longer endings, as one-syllable nouns do; the only
option is to remember them (the list below is not exhaustive):
bubanj (bubnj-) drum → bubnjevi
češalj (češlj-) comb → češljevi
dio (dijel-) part ® → dijelovi
lakat (lakt-) elbow → laktovi
otac (oc-) father → očevi
vjetar (vjetr-) wind → vjetrovi
There are several two-syllable nouns that usually get longer endings. Notably, they
include bird species:
galeb gull golub pidgeon labud swan
(The Core Dictionary lists all unusual plural forms of nouns included in it.)
The accusative case for longer plural again has just -e instead of the final -i:
Gledam brodove A . I’m watching ships.
One masculine noun has a completely irregular plural, and one more has no real
plural but something else that will be explained a bit later:
čovjek man/human → ljudi people, men and women
brat brother → ?
The noun ljudi has a slightly different meaning than čovjek, it’s more generic, and
can be often translated as people. It also corresponds to the English phrase men,
women and children used to describe a mixed group. In a more narrow sense, it
corresponds to men and women (i.e. all adults). If you attempt to translate men and
women as ljudi i žene, it would sound extremely sexist – you would basically say
that women are non-human.
Unfortunately, there’s more: some nouns in N-pl have a bit unexpected – and
unsettled – spelling. They have case-base in -tk-; for example:
redak (retk-) line of text
početak (početk-) beginning
From everything you have learned so far, you would expect the forms:
N DL N-pl A-pl
redak retku retci retke
početak početku početci početke
However, since the sequence tc in N-pl is normally pronounced just as c, it was