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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 41 Somewhere, Nobody, Everything... 242 / 600

vrijedan (vrijedn-) (G DL) pred. worth (of G to DL)

Is here used (if you unravel the sentence and add the right pronoun) as:

Ti joj nisi vrijedan ni poziva She thinks you’re not worth a single call

The pronoun joj is in DL – it’s her opinion. The particle ni¨ emphasizes the negation

(you see, Croatian has a lot of ‘emphasizing devices’). It will be explained in 67 Only,

Except, Too: Inclusion and Exclusion.

The preposition zbog because of requires the genitive case; for more details, check:

50 Because, In Order To, Why: Reasons.

The 091 mentioned in the third verse is a mobile network dialing prefix. He switched

the network for her, and yet she didn’t bother to call, she has just sent a text

message. The word prešo is shortened past form prešao, from the verb preći /

prijeći go across, switch to. The word otić is just infinitive otići leave without the

final -i. Both verbs will be explained in the next chapter.

The last two verses translate literally as ‘when you have with someone to go on

beer’. Words s nekim with someone are just the usual preposition + instrumental

case. As you can see, words in Croatian can be shuffled around a lot.

• Exercise

Fill in the sentences below:

__________(a) __(b) zna __________(c). Nobody knows anything.

Ana je ____________(d). Ana is somewhere.

Check answers here.

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