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Koliko ti DL je godina G ? (the same meaning, sometimes used)
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There’s a useful way to express at what age you did something:
s¨ / sa¨ + age (in instrumental) = at the age of...
For example:
Prvi put sam letio avionom I s dvanaest godina G . I flew in an airplane for the first
time at the age of twelve.
You’ll sometimes see just s¨ + number, years are assumed then. However, it’s also
usual to express this with an embedded time clause, starting with kad(a):
Prvi put sam letio avionom I kad sam imao dvanaest. I flew in an airplane for the
first time when I was twelve.
Such clauses are really sentences-within-a-sentence; any second-position words
(e.g. sam²) come right after the word kad(a).
Bigger numbers use the following words – there’s more than one word for numbers
100 and 1000:
100 sto (adv.) / stotina
1000 tisuća ® / hiljada (colloq.) ®
million milijun ®
The above words are nouns (except sto) and can change case according to usual
roles (the counted noun is always in G-pl, of course):
Imam tisuću A dolara G . I have one thousand dollars.
Tisuća N dolara G je u ladici DL . One thousand dollars are in the drawer. ®
The Standard Croatian noun for 1000 is tisuća, while the noun hiljada is colloquial;
both words are used in speech (I personally use tisuća).
The Croatian verb is in singular, since we’re talking about a thousand – only one
thousand, like one box containing small pieces of paper.
Pay attention that milijun million is always a noun in Croatian. While you usually say
in English five million men, in Croatian you have to adjust the word to the number
before it, and a noun after the million always goes into G-pl:
U Hrvatskoj DL živi četiri milijuna 24 ljudi G . Four million people live in Croatia.
The nouns listed above – except milijun million – are often used as ‘adverbs’
(identical to the accusative forms of nouns), regardless of their role, especially
tisuća:
Tisuću dolara G je u ladici DL . One thousand dollars are in the drawer.
If you use the accusative form as subject (i.e. an ‘adverb’), don’t forget it then