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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 30 Three Beers: Less than 5 Things 177 / 600

So, you can finally order food and drink (basically all waiters in Croatia speak English

as well, so you could do it without any knowledge of Croatian as well). The most

common conversation would be something along these lines:

Imate li (A) ? Do you have...?

— Imamo. We have. / — Nemamo. We don’t.

Što imate? What do you have?

Molim Vas A (A) I’d like...

For example, the last line could be:

Molim Vas A dvije kave 24 . Two coffees, please.

Molim Vas A tri mala piva 24 . Three small beers, please.

Molim Vas A jedan hamburger A . One hamburger, please.

Molim Vas A dva čaja 24 . Two cups of tea, please. (lit. two teas)

Molim Vas A tri velike pizze 24 . Three large pizzas, please.

Normally, we don’t say cup of coffee, bottle of beer etc. when we are ordering food,

because there’s no other option. But when ordering food that’s served on the plate,

and it’s not pizza, the word porcija serving, portion is often used. Of course, what

you are ordering comes after porcija, in G, while the word porcija changes to A or to

the 24 form:

Molim Vas A (jednu) porciju A piletine G . One serving of chicken, please.

Molim Vas A dvije porcije 24 piletine G . Two servings of chicken, please.

The number one is optional, but it’s often used in such sentences.

The same holds for wine, you can sometimes order it by glasses:

Molim Vas A (jednu) čašu A vina G . A glass of wine, please.

Of course, you can always order more:

Molim Vas A još dva piva 24 . Two more beers, please.

Finally, it’s interesting that the verb moliti has two objects in such sentences, and

both are in A: the person asked, and what is asked.

There’s another way of asking for (and offering) food and drink, and it will be

introduced in the following chapter.

• Exercise

Fill in the right forms of verbs and pronouns:

Imam ______(a) ____________(b) ________(c). I have three big glasses.

Dva ______________(d) su __________(e). Two men were singing.

Check answers here.

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