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preko reda bypassing the line
There’s another often used preposition:
o¨ + DL about
It’s mostly used with the following verbs:
brinuti (brine) se² care
ovisiti depend
pisati (piše) write
razgovarati («) talk
For example (recall, you must use a stressed pronoun with a preposition):
Sve N ovisi o njemu DL . Everything depends on him.
However, with the verb misliti think, this preposition is not used in the way you
maybe expect. It’s rather:
misliti
+ na¨ + A think about
+ A + o¨ + DL have opinion on
For example:
Ne mislim na nju A . I’m not thinking about her.
There are more ‘quasi-locations’. One example, which corresponds to an English
phrase, is:
u obliku + G in the shape of
(The word oblik (oblik-) is an exception to stress-shift rules.) For example:
Imam kutiju A u obliku DL srca G . I have a heart-shaped box.
Another interesting construction uses two prepositions, and can be roughly
translated as unlike:
za razliku od + G unlike X, Y
It’s usually used to contrast subject of the sentence with something else. An
example will make it clearer:
Za razliku A od Austrije G , Hrvatska DL ima more A . Unlike Austria, Croatia has the sea.
There’s something interesting when prepositions are used with indefinite pronouns
and adverbs. When they are used with ones starting with ni-, the prefix ni- gets
detached and becomes a separate word that is placed before the preposition. As
you can see from the table, this doesn’t happen for other indefinite pronouns, and it
doesn’t happen when the preposition bez¨ without is used – something unexpected
happens then: