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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 33 School Yard and Bunk Bed: Relaons 191 / 600

It’s interesting that relational adjectives cannot be derived from days of week,

except for Sunday:

nedjelja Sunday → nedjeljni

(You will occasionally see and hear adjective subotnji adj. Saturday, but it’s quite

rare.)

It’s very useful to learn relational adjectives derived from time nouns (like English

day → daily, month → monthly); some of them are quite irregular:

dan day → dnevni

noć f night → noćni

jutro morning → jutarnji

večer f evening ® → večernji

mjesec month → mjesečni

godina year → godišnji

For the nouns tjedan (tjedn-) week, ponoć f midnight and podne (podnev-) noon,

adjectives are derived regularly by adding the -ni. For example:

Ovo N je moj mjesečni prihod N . This is my monthly income.

Kupi neke dnevne novine A . Buy a daily newspaper.

The adjective godišnji annual is used in a common phrase:

godišnji odmor annual leave, paid vacation

The phrase is often – in speech and casual writing – shortened to just godišnji: the

noun odmor is assumed. So, you’ll often hear (and read):

Ivan N je na godišnjem DL . Ivan is on (paid) vacation.

Sutra idem na godišnji A . I’m going on (paid) vacation tomorrow.

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Of course, even when used on its own, the word godišnji behaves like any adjective

and keeps the gender of the omitted noun (here: masculine inanimate). Therefore, it

got the DL ending -em in the first sentence (for "activity as location") and the A

ending in the second (for "activity as destination").

It’s also possible to derive relational adjectives from many adverbs, e.g. sad(a) now,

jučer yesterday, gore up and so on: they will be explained in 76 Inner and Outer and

Step by Step: More on Space and Time.

Few nouns have relational adjectives on -ji, again with (specific) consonant

alternations; they include most animals:

djeca coll. children → dječji ®

mačka cat → mačji

miš mouse → mišji

ptica bird → ptičji

riba fish → riblji

zec rabbit → zečji

There are frequently used adjectives to indicate what kind of meat something is

made of:

goveđi adj. beef

janjeći adj. lamb

pileći adj. chicken

teleći adj. beef (veal)

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