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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 43 And, Or, But: Basic Conjuncons 251 / 600
In such a case, when the subjects are the same in both clauses – as above – they are
not emphasized.
As other words marked with ¨, words i¨ and a¨ don’t count – second position words
cannot be placed after them:
Ana N je čitala knjigu A , a ja N sam² spavao. Ana was reading a book, and I was
sleeping.
Gledam film A i dosadno mi DL ² je². I’m watching a movie, and I’m bored.
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An exception to the “rule of different subjects” is when the second clause is a
consequence of the first, then the emphasis of the subject of first clause is not
needed, and i¨ is used:
Pokucao sam i ona N je otvorila vrata A . I knocked and she opened the door.
Another example of this exception are weather phenomena: if everything is as
expected, use i¨, while a¨ is reserved for unusual and unexpected things, i.e. not
consequences:
Zima N je i pada snijeg N . It’s winter and it’s snowing.
Ljeto N je, a hladno je. It’s summer, and/but it’s cold.
The next conjunction – ili – is very similar to English or:
To N je patka N ili guska N . That’s a duck or a goose.
Unlike i¨ or a¨, ili is a word that counts, and all second-position words come right
after it.
When you have two subjects or objects (not necessarily in A) which you would link
with and in a negative sentence, you can use ni¨ instead of i¨ to either emphasize
negation, or when there’s no real connection between these two things:
Nemamo ulja G ni octa G . We have no oil and no vinegar.
This is always optional.
The conjunction ali usually corresponds to English but:
Hoću se tuširati, ali nema tople vode G . I want to have a shower, but htjeti pres-1
there’s no hot water.
Again, when an ali is used, a comma always separates two clauses. The major
difference in comparison to a¨ is that ali is a word that counts, and all secondposition
words come right after it.
Unfortunately, but is not always ali: there’s an interesting conjunction nego, which
kind of completely corrects what was said, but what was said must be negative. For
example:
Nismo išli u kino A , nego u restoran A . We didn’t go to the cinema, but to ići past-mpl
a restaurant.