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reserved for horses and other animals.

To express that somebody generally likes running (which can imply just watching

others running, not running themselves), other words, so-called verbal nouns or

gerunds should be used:

Ana N voli trčanje A . Ana loves running.

You can find more about verbal nouns in 66 Smoking is Dangerous: Verbal Nouns.

You can use adverbs of intensity with all such expressions, mostly jako and stvarno

to strengthen expressions, using the usual placement rules for such adverbs (the

intensifying adverb usually comes before the verb, but 2nd position words can

intervene):

Jako mi DL se sviđa juha N . I like the soup very much.

Bilo mi DL je jako lijepo na moru DL . I liked being at the seaside very much.

Ana A stvarno voli trčati. Ana really likes to run.

It’s interesting that the more formal word vrlo cannot be used to strengthen verbs.

There’s another often used verb:

zanimati («) be interesting to

This verb is used in a similar way; however, the person who feels interest is

expressed in A:

Gorana A zanima nogomet N . Goran is interested in football. ®

This Croatian sentence could also be translated as football is interesting to Goran

(it’s interesting that English here kind of follows Croatian).

This verb is used in a very common expression, used when you want to express that

you don’t really want to hear about something (the expression is not really polite,

however):

Ne zanima me A . I’m not interested.

Another verb is very similar to voljeti (voli,...) but stands for an even stronger

feeling:

obožavati («) adore, be fan of, really like

It can be used for people you really love, but also for actors, sports, food, activities

(including verbs in infinitive), etc.:

Igor N obožava kavu A . Igor ‘adores’ coffee.

Ana N obožava plivati. Ana ‘adores’ swimming.

The verb with the meaning opposite to love and like is:

mrziti hate ®

It’s used in the same ways as voljeti (voli,...):

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