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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 61 Cake is Eaten: Passive Adjecves 357 / 600

All passive adjectives in Croatian end in either -n (a vast majority) or -t. Always keep

in mind that they are real adjectives, that is, they must adapt to gender, case and

number.

For regular verbs that have infinitive ending in -ati, it’s really simple to make a pass.

adjective, just replace -ati with -an:

verb

gledati watch

napisati (napiše) perf. write

poslati (pošalje) perf. send

pass. adj.

gledan watched

napisan written

poslan sent

As you can see, even verbs that have a bit irregular pres-3 follow this simple pattern

if their inf ends in -ati.

Since these words are adjectives, they adapt to nouns as any other adjectives do.

For example:

Pismo N je napisano N i poslano N . The letter is written and sent.

For verbs that don’t have infinitives in -ati, the rules are more complicated.

For most verbs that have pres-3 ending in -e, their pass. adjective is simply made by

adding -n to the pres-3 (I have omitted all past forms for clarity):

verb

naći (nađe) perf. find

peći (peče) bake

pojesti (pojede) perf. eat

plesti (plete) knit

pass. adj.

nađen found

pečen baked

pojeden eaten

pleten knitted

Finally we can say:

Kolač N je pojeden N . The cake is eaten.

Since this adjective is derived from a perfective verb, it’s implied that the cake is no

more.

For verbs that have pres-3 ending in -i – and there are many such verbs – the -i is

removed and -en is added. Unless they are Croatian-specific or an r, consonants

before -en get changed, e.g. t is changed to ć (I have again omitted all past forms for

clarity):

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