EasyCroatian_r47.an

Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 74 It Just Happened to Me 423 / 600
bar, and glasses were constantly breaking, but it was not your fault, the dishwasher
did it, etc.) This is really an extreme, stretched example, which would be very rare in
real life.
Since persons/animals or groups added in DL are just affected by the event, this use
of DL is also called dative of interest. Its use extends – mostly colloquially – to
sentences where we want somebody to get interested, or when we just emphasize
who is/should be interested. So, in colloquial communication, among friends, it’s
common to add the DL ti² to many sentences when you say something about
yourself or someone else, similar to colloquial English you know:
Ja N ti DL sutra ne radim. I don’t work tomorrow. (you know)
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Of course, if you’re talking to a group, you would use another pronoun:
Ja N vam DL sutra ne radim.
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On the other side, when you ask a question, the DL mi² is sometimes added to
emphasize that you’re interested:
Kako si mi DL ? How are you doing? (I’d like to know)
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All these DL’s to express interest are used only colloquially, among close friends and
family.
Another way used in colloquial communication is literally the same as in English,
adding znaš you know to the beginning:
Znaš, sutra ne radim. You know, I don’t work tomorrow.
(the rest is coming soon...)