EasyCroatian_r47.an

Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 52 Stand, Become, Exist, Cease 304 / 600
The noun pare f pl. is a colloquial word for money. The verb upaliti («) is a perfective
verb meaning ignite, turn on. Here nobody has turned on the lights, they ignited,
turned on, so a se² must be used.
The word a¨ in the third line will be explained in the following chapters: it’s another
word for and. We have the verb postajati (postaje) become in that line, and, as
expected, what it becomes is again in N (stvaran real, which agrees with miris, a
masculine inanimate noun).
Ko mnogo puta G do sada Like many times before
On N sanja
He’s dreaming
Kako beskrajno pada... Of falling endlessly...
The word ko is a colloquial form of kao as, like.
The lines on sanja kako beskrajno pada contain a content clause, which will be
explained in 59 Knowing and Telling: Content and Noun Clauses. It literally means
he’s dreaming that he’s endlessly falling.
Bilo je rano jutro N tada
It was early morning then
kad je ostavio sve A when he left everything
Čulo se samo kako ptice N pjevaju Only birds singing could be heard
Onda je stajao još dugo
Then he was standing for a long time
s druge strane G ulice G on the other side of the street
The verb pair ostavljati ~ ostaviti leave (e.g. keys) was introduced in previous
chapters. It’s, of course, also used to leave everything. Compare it with the second
line, where otići (ode, otišao, otišla) leave, depart is used, because the smoke goes
away, departs.
The line čulo se samo kako ptice pjevaju will be explained later, in 80 Present
Adverbs and Adjectives. It contains also a content clause and a se²-passive, which
will be explained in the following chapters.
The construction s druge strane ulice means literally ‘from the other side of the
street’, but the meaning is on (such use will be explained in 76 Inner, Outer, Step by
Step: More on Space and Time).
You can listen to it on YouTube. Note that Darko Rundek mostly uses the
standard stress here, despite being from Zagreb.