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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 35 Tools and Means, With and Without 205 / 600

there are again only 2 endings to remember: one for feminine, another for

everything else):

gender adj. I example

fem. -om

velikom ribom

big fish

velikim jezerom

neut.

big lake

-im

velikim konjem

masc.

big horse

When you compare adjectives in DL, G and I, you see there are only two different

endings in singular:

gender adj. DL adj. G adj. I

fem. -oj -e -om

neut. -om -og

masc. (-em) (-eg)

-im

Therefore, Croatian adjectives have much fewer different endings than they could in

principle have!

Question-words tko who and što what have the following forms in instrumental (as

expected, as they change like adjectives):

N I

who tko kim(e)

what što čim(e)

To ask about means, you can use either kako how or čim(e):

Kako idete na more A ? How do you go to the seaside?

ići

— Autom I . By car.

With verbs of motion, such as trčati (trči) run, šetati (šeće/šeta) ® stroll, walk, etc.

the instrumental case can be used to indicate where the whole action happened. It’s

usually translated with through:

Trčali smo šumom I . We were running through the forest.

The preposition za¨ is used with the instrumental case, to indicate that you’re sitting

behind something or at something. It’s usually used with the following expressions,

and the verbs biti (je² +) be and sjediti sit:

za stolom at the table

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