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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 44 Genive Plural 258 / 600

bajka fairy tale

borba struggle

lopta ball

majka mother

maska mask

molba plea

palma palm

petlja loop

plahta bed sheet ®

tajna secret

torba bag, big purse

žalba complaint, appeal

This also applies to a couple of masculine nouns; a frequent example is (recall, it

shifts its stress in plural):

mjesec month/moon → mjeseci

The noun čovjek man/human has the irregular plural ljudi people; its G-pl is also just

ljudi.

The noun sat – when meaning hour – has G-pl sati.

Some nouns get an -u or something similar, instead of the endings listed above.

These three nouns get always -u:

noga leg ruka arm sluga m servant

This noun gets -iju:

gost guest → gostiju

The strange plurals of oko eye and uho ear get -iju as well:

oči f pl. eyes → očiju uši f pl. ears → ušiju

The following nouns can have both -a (or -i) and -iju:

kost f bone → kosti / kostiju

prst finger/toe → prsta / prstiju

nokat (nokt-) fingernail, toenail → nokata / noktiju

vrata n. pl. door → vrata / vratiju

Additionally, the following colloquial noun can get both -i and -iju, but the latter

ending is seen as very colloquial:

dečko (dečk-) m boy → dečki / dečkiju ®

All such unexpected forms in the G-pl are listed in the Core Dictionary.

Compared to all the twists I had to explain for nouns, the genitive plural forms of

adjectives are as simple as possible:

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