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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 06 Desnaons 34 / 600

06 Destinations

With the knowledge of the accusative case and a few verbs, we can talk about

travel and express destinations. The useful verbs are:

dolaziti come, arrive

putovati (putuje) travel

ići (ide) go

odlaziti leave

There are couple of nouns that we can use with verbs to demonstrate use of

destinations:

Amerika America

bolnica hospital

hotel hotel

Hrvatska Croatia

grad city

kafić cafe bar

kino cinema ®

park park

Split (a city)

restoran restaurant

škola school

Zagreb (a city)

To express destinations, we have to put the preposition u¨ in front of the noun in

accusative, and then we can make sentences like these:

Ana odlazi u Ameriku. Ana is leaving for America.

Ivan putuje u Hrvatsku. Ivan is traveling to Croatia.

Idem u Zagreb. I’m going to Zagreb.

Goran ide u bolnicu. Goran is going to hospital.

We again see the two dots, introduced with ne¨; their meaning is the same (the

word is pronounced with the following word, stress moves to it in some words, for

some speakers.).

However, I won’t specially mark words and forms where stress moves to u¨, as it

putovati

ići

ići

would be too complicated; besides, this feature doesn’t completely overlap with the

standard stress area. You can just leave the stress on the noun, but be prepared to

hear the stress moved from some speakers (e.g. u + vodu = u vodu.)®

While English leave usually uses for instead of to, Croatian verbs use the same

prepositions.

The expression ide u školu can mean somebody is a school student, i.e. ‘goes to

school’:

Goran ide u školu. Goran goes to school.

However, if you go to an island or mountain, you must use the preposition na¨

instead of u¨. There are names of bigger Croatian islands:

Brač

Cres

Hvar

Korčula

Krk

Lošinj

Pag

Rab

Vis

ići

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