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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 46 More than Four Things 268 / 600

46 More than Four Things

Counting more than 4 items is quite simple: just use the number and put the noun in

genitive plural after it:

Imam pet jabuka G . I have five apples.

If you want to use one of adjectives that come before numbers (that is, determiners

as taj (t-) that or possessives), they should be in G-pl as well:

Imam ovih G pet jabuka G . I have these five apples.

If you use them as a subject, it behaves as neuter singular:

Pet jabuka G je bilo u kutiji DL . Five apples were in the box.

These table summarize use of various numbers in Croatian (for masc. nouns on the

left, for feminine on the right):

jedan

neki

svaki

dva

tri

četiri

pet

puno

nekoliko

čovjek

vrabac

čovjeka

vrapca 24

ljudi

vrabaca G

je pjevao

su pjevala

je pjevalo

jedna

neka

svaka

dvije

tri

četiri

pet

puno

nekoliko

sestra

ptica

sestre

ptice 24

sestara

ptica G

je pjevala

su pjevale

je pjevalo

You can see e.g. 30 minuta on a 30-minute Zagreb public transport short ride ticket

(karta):

Some numbers greater than 4 behave as numbers 1-4: it all depends on the last word

in the number:

21 dvadeset i jedan → behaves as jedan (jedn-)

53 pedeset i tri → behaves as tri

So, for such numbers, rules for using nouns and adjectives with numbers 1-4 apply:

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