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default ‘package’ of them.
When you use negation of the verb imati have, uncountable objects are normally in
G instead of A – meaning ‘any’:
Nemam vremena G . (G) I don’t have any time.
On nema sreće G . (G) He has no luck.
You will very, very rarely hear or see A of uncountable nouns with such negative
sentences – just check these results from Google (on the .hr domain):
form hits
"nemam vremena" (G) 109000
"nemam vrijeme" (A) 154
With some nouns that can be both uncountable and countable, you can use both A
and G in positive and negative sentences, expressing different meanings. The most
common examples are these nouns:
noun countable uncountable
mjesto place place (as space, room)
posao (posl-) m job work
For example:
Imam posao A . (A) I have a job.
Imam posla G . (G) I have some work. (i.e. I’m busy.)
Nemam posao A . (A) I don’t have a job.
The noun mjesto when used as countable, has an additional meaning: inhabited
place.
Even with countable nouns, you can use G-pl in negative sentences to express any:
it’s mostly used for things that are often found in large numbers, and, of course, it’s
optional:
Nemam jabuka G . (G-pl) I don’t have any apples.
Soba nema prozora G . (G-pl) The room has no windows.
This is virtually never done with things that always come in small numbers or are
individualized (parents, passport, husband, wife, forum avatar, etc.) – the plain old A
is used then.
Next, before nouns in genitive, you can place one of the following adverbs of
quantity:
malo a bit / few
dosta quite a few
premalo too little / few
previše too much / many