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to express that something is under the bed – and ispod is more common in such
non-metaphorical uses.
Something different happens when using pred¨ in the temporal sense, like English
before, the accusative case must be used always:
pred jutro before the morning
pred kišu before the rain
pred zimu before the winter
(Strangely, some Standard Croatian manuals discourage use of pred¨ + A in the
temporal sense, but it has been used for centuries in speech and literature.)
There’s yet another difference: među is mostly used when there are more than two
things or persons (i.e. among) while između usually means between, i.e. when there
are two things or persons.
Now you know how to create almost all forms of nouns. There are only two cases
left unexplained: genitive plural and the vocative case. They will be explained in 44
Genitive Plural and 72 Addressing and Vocative Case.
(There are certain dialects in Croatia where DL is not equal to I in plural, actually,
where D, L and I are have different endings. They will be briefly summarized in the
section A8 Dialects.)
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® Instead of kino, bioskop is used for cinema in Serbia and most of Bosnia.
• Examples
This blackboard in front of a restaurant in Opatija, Croatia lists their fall specialties:
The first specialty has is sa¨ + I-pl (the standard spelling demands s¨ here, but as I’ve