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Hvala svima DL . Thanks to everyone.
Razgovarao sam sa svima I . I talked to everyone.
The first phrase, hvala svima, is the preferred way to thank a group of people.
Of course, when sav (sv-) is used as an adjective, it gets ordinary endings in DLI-pl:
Hvala svim mojim prijateljima DL . Thanks to all my friends.
Sometimes, feminine plural forms (N sve, A sve...) are used if you refer to women
only. You will sometimes hear (and read) forms with regular endings (svo, etc.) –
however, only when it’s used as an adjective – such forms are not standard, but
frequent in some regions, especially outside Croatia.
You will from time to time hear additional version of masc. A-pl: svih (like personal
pronouns, oni → njih). It’s widespread in parts of Croatia, but it’s not standard.
Of course, you can use svi drugi everybody else, etc.
There are more adjectives that are used as pronouns in this way: masc. pl. for
people, neut. sing. for things.
The words svi, nitko are similar to total adverbs (e.g. nikad). As will other such
words, you can loosen them a bit with the help of the adverb skoro almost:
Nemam skoro ništa A . I have almost nothing.
Skoro svi N spavaju. Almost everyone is sleeping.
• Examples
Hladno pivo (Cold beer) is a very popular punk-rock band from Zagreb. They
combine love songs with social commentary. This song, Nije sve tako sivo
Everything isn’t so gray, is a song about a guy just dumped by his girlfriend via a text
message (or SMS):
Zar nakon svega G
Are you really after everything
Joj DL nisi ni poziva G vrijedan N
A zbog nje G si prešo
na 091 A
Not worth a single call to her
And because of her you’ve switched
to 091
Nije sve N tako sivo N
Everything isn’t so gray
Kad imaš s nekim I
When you have someone
Otić na pivo A
To go for a beer
(Mile Kekin)
You can listen to it on YouTube.
The song is not in the Standard Croatian, but fairly close to it.
The word zar enhances a question. The predicative:
prijeći past-m