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to separate them by a comma.
• Examples
This rock song, Samo za taj osjećaj Only for that feeling, performed by Hladno pivo,
contains unrealized conditional sentences (together with purpose clauses):
Da sam prazan list N If I were an empty sheet
potpuno čist N completely blank
Koristio bih puno A , I’d use a much,
puno deblji kist A much thicker brush
I samo jarke A And only vivid
i šarene boje A and bright colors
[Da napišem ime A To write the name
tvoje A i moje A ] yours and mine
(Mile Kekin)
I’ve enclosed the purpose clause in square brackets; it uses the same conjunction
(da) as the first part of the conditional clause, but it comes after everything else.
The song contains more similar verses:
Da se mogu ko nekad If I could, like long ago,
moći pres-1
vratiti na početak A return to the start
I biti onaj isti N
bahati dječak N And be the same
arrogant boy
Ne bih forsiro I wouldn't insist on
neki ležeran stil A a relaxed style
(Mile Kekin)
The form forsiro is the masc. past form of the verb forsirati («) insist, force with the
ending -ao colloquially shorted. The word ko is shortened kao.
Pay attention where the particle se² – accompanying the verb vratiti return – is
placed:
Da se mogu ko nekad vratiti na početak A ...
moći pres-1
With a verb + another verb in infinitive, as here, another option would be right after
the infinitive.
You can listen to it on YouTube.
(Note that Mile Kekin, the singer of Hladno pivo, stresses words mostly on the
standard place of stress, e.g. koristio, napišem).