EasyCroatian_r47.an

Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 77 As If: Advanced Clauses 436 / 600
everything in the present tense, but English have the subjunctive shift to the past:
I kao [da me G nema tu] And as [if I weren’t here]
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ja N tonem sve do dna G I’m sinking all the way to the bottom
I kao [da mi DL nestaje And as [if
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tlo N pod nogama I ] the ground under my feet were disappearing]
The second verse has sve do¨, where sve doesn’t mean all, but all the way, i.e. it
strengthens the preposition do¨. The third and fourth verse are one sentence, the
verb is in the third verse, and the pronoun mi² refers to noge feet/legs which is the
subject; the fourth verse also illustrates pod¨ + I. I guess the pronoun ja in the
second verse is there just to add one syllable.
The rest of the chorus has a similar structure, again the DL mi² marks the possession
of tijelo body. (You see again and again how DL is common with body parts.)
DL N I kao [da mi tijelo gori] And as [if my body were burning]
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ja N zovem upomoć I’m calling for help
A ponovo bi dala sve A And I’d give everything again
za jednu jedinu noć A for a single night
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(Ante Pecotić)
The word bi is, of course, just the colloquial form of bih, the 1st person of the
conditional verb. The phrase jedan jedini means a single; of course, both words are
adjectives, and change when needed.
You can find performances on YouTube, including a cover on A strana A Side.