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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 06 Desnaons 37 / 600

If you say idemo na plažu, you aren’t describing where the action takes place,

but where you’re heading to (and you may get there or not). To help you

distinguish locations vs destinations, consider the following sentences:

I’m running to the gym.

(You aren’t in the gym,

just want to get there.)

I’m running in the gym.

(You are in the gym,

and running there.)

= a destination

= a location

If you feel that the word to is a better fit in English, it’s definitely a destination.

Confusingly, English uses on in e.g. going on vacation, when you’re actually not on

vacation yet – but Croatian treats this case as a destination too. While English

sometimes uses the same grammar for both, Croatian strongly distinguishes

destinations from locations.

So, what about locations? You will have to wait a while, since we have to learn

another noun form to express them. Destinations come cheap, if you know how

to make the accusative case.

The sentences above can be made more precise if we add one of the following

useful adverbs of time:

sad(a) now

danas today

sutra tomorrow ®

uskoro soon

prekosutra day after tomorrow

sljedeće godine next year

sljedeći mjesec next month

sljedeći tjedan next week ®

(As in English, you can talk about events in future and still use the present tense.)

Such words and expressions are often used to begin sentence with:

Sutra idem na sastanak. I’m going to a meeting tomorrow.

Danas idemo u kino. We’re going to cinema today.

Sljedeće godine putujemo na Hvar. We’re traveling to the island of Hvar

next year.

Finally, there are the following often used generic directions:

blizu close, near

daleko far away

dalje further, away

unutra inside

ovamo here

natrag / nazad back

van outside ®

tamo / onamo there

ići

ići

putovati

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