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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 31 First, Second: Ordinals 179 / 600

(in masc.), since it’s just short for petog dana and osmog mjeseca – and both dan

and mjesec are masculine.

In the Croatian writing of numbers, ordinal numbers are abbreviated to just number

+ a period, so it’s usually written:

Rođen N sam 5. 8.

This is the word used to describe a specific date:

datum date

If you want to talk about a date related to an event, you add the event in the

genitive case:

datum rođenja date of birth

To say that something happened/happens sometime in a given month, use u¨ + DL:

Rođen N sam u osmom mjesecu DL . I’m born in August.

The word mjesec is sometimes abbreviated as mj.; colloquially, even mjesec month

can be left out:®

Idemo na more A u sedmom DL . We’re going to seaside in July. ®

ići

There are also names of months in Croatian, but they are mostly used in formal

writing, books, etc.; they are normally not capitalized (similar to days of week):®

1 siječanj (siječnj-) January

2 veljača February

3 ožujak (ožujk-) March

4 travanj (travnj-) April

5 svibanj (svibnj-) May

6 lipanj (lipnj-) June

7 srpanj (srpnj-) July

8 kolovoz August

9 rujan (rujn-) September

10 listopad October

11 studeni (adj.) November

12 prosinac (prosinc-) December

Of course, they must be also put to genitive when used in the above meaning (when

something happened/happens):

Rođen N sam petog kolovoza A . (formal) I am born on the fifth of August.

Rođen N sam u kolovozu DL . (formal) I am born in August.

When the date is the subject, the first word should be in nominative, but the rest of

the date must stay in the genitive case, since you are actually talking about the Xth

day of some month of some year and all those of’s correspond to the Croatian

genitive case:

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