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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 46 More than Four Things 272 / 600

really plural. So, if you want to count children and brothers, you have to use a

specific way of counting them, which will be described in the following chapter.

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® Besides zarez comma, the word zapeta is also used in Serbia. You will also

occassionally hear koma. Instead of točka, tačka is used in Serbia and parts of

Bosnia.

Using DL to express ‘possession’ of years seems to be very rare in Serbia.

While ladica is used in Serbia as well, the word fioka is much more common there

for the drawer.

Instead of tisuća and milijun, words hiljada and milion are used in Bosnia and

Serbia, and are often heard in Croatia as well. The ordinals are hiljaditi and milionti.

The forms dvjesta and trista are much more common in Serbia and Bosnia, and in

the “Ikavian” forms (e.g. dvista) in Dalmatia, a part of Croatia.

• Examples

This cjenik price list for driving toy cars nicely illustrates use of various noun forms

with numbers:

You can see how much longer G-pl is used with the number 10. The noun krug is

literally circle, but is used for rounds in games and play as well.

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