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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 72 Addressing and Vocave Case 416 / 600
If a masc. noun ends in a Croatian-specific consonant, it gets -u in vocative:
kralj king → kralju
muž husband → mužu
prijatelj friend (m) → prijatelju
However, if a masc. noun ends in c, it gets -e, and c changes to č:
princ prince → prinče
For nouns ending in -ica, the vocative case is -ice:
kraljica queen → kraljice
prijateljica friend (f) → prijateljice
This usually applies to few female and male names that end in -ica, like Anica (f) and
Ivica (m):
Hvala ti, Anice. Thank you, Anica.
Izvoli, Ivice. Here you are, Ivica.
The are no special vocative forms for adjectives, except that masculine singular gets
an -i (except, of course, for possessives like moj and so on, which never have an -i).
In Croatian, adjectives normally precede nouns (moj prijatelj) but it's common in
vocatives to invert the order (prijatelju moj), and it's especially common in songs
and poetry in general; you will very often hear:
ljubavi moja o, my love
The vocative case is always used in addressing in letters and mail messages. They
usually have the following formula:
dragi
poštovani
+
gospodine (+ last name)
gospođo (+ last name)
name in V
Words gospodin mister and gospođa madam are often shortened:
gospodin mister = g. / gosp.
gospođa madam = gđa
There's one more word: gospođica miss, sometimes shortened to gđica.
Abbreviations gđa and gđica are declined as nouns, that is V = gđo, A = gđu, etc.
There's no period (.) after gđa and gđica.
For example, a letter could start with one of the following:
Dragi Ivane,...
Poštovana gospođo Jurić,...
Poštovani g. Horvat,...
Poštovana gđo Jurić,...