EasyCroatian_r47.an

Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 34 Stressed Pronouns 198 / 600
Perem si DL ruke A . (colloq.!, western parts)
Ich wasche mir die Hände. (German)
I’m washing my hands.
(Of course, it’s not required that you speak like that, but be prepared to hear and see
it occasionally in these regions. This feature is likely German influence.)
Here are the forms for plural – they’re almost identical to the unstressed forms:
1st & 2nd pers. pronouns in plural
person N A, G DL
1st mi nas nama
2nd vi vas vama
Finally, here are the 3rd person forms. They are mostly like unstressed forms with
added n- or nje-:
3rd person pronouns
gender N A G DL
f ona nju nje njoj
n (ono)
njega = A njemu
m on
f pl. one
n pl. ona njih = A njima
m pl. oni
With the stressed forms of personal pronouns, we are able to use prepositions. One
of them is za¨ for, requiring nouns or pronouns in the accusative case:
Sendvič N je za Anu A . The sandwich is for Ana.
Kolač N je za njih N . The cake is for them.
In the standard stress scheme, the stress shifts to unstressed prepositions (ones
marked with ¨), so it’s usually pronounced za mene.®
(In certain regions, you will maybe hear za me or za te, that is, using za¨ with the
unstressed 1st and 2nd person pronouns glued to them. It’s a bit archaic.)
It’s also quite common to use the preposition kod¨ + G with pronouns. The result is
a compact way to say where something is:
Knjiga N je kod mene G . The book is ‘at my place’.
This, as we have already seen, can mean that the book is in your house (even if
you’re not in the house at the moment!), your room, your backpack, or even pocket –
depending on the context. This is a convenient way to indicate temporary