EasyCroatian_r47.an

Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 78 Dijete vs. Dite 438 / 600
There are a couple of words where just the Standard re is changed to ri:
Standard word
mreža net
prestati (prestane) perf. stop
rezati (reže) impf. cut
sreća happiness, luck
trebati impf. need/should
usred in the middle of
jesti eat
orah walnut
Ikavian
mriža
pristati (pristane)
rizati (riže)
srića
tribati
usrid
jisti
orih
Ikavian pristati stop looks like another verb from the same family, meaning consent,
agree – prefixes pre- and pri- have merged in Ikavian! Of course, this doesn't apply
to every re in every word – these words have to be learned.
There are some words where it isn't re vs ri, as in the two rows in the table above.
Perhaps confusingly, this applies also to the negative present tense of the verb imati
have and to indefinite pronouns/adjectives like neki and nešto:
Standard word
nemaš pres-2 you don't have
neki adj. some
nešto something
Ikavian
nimaš
niki
ništo
Many Ikavian dialects also have specific past-m forms: instead of -o, they have -a
and -ja:
verb Std. past-m Ikavian
biti (je² +) be bio bija
imati have imao ima
vidjeti see vidio vidija
When the past-m in Standard Croatian ends in -ao, in such dialects it ends in only -a.
When other vowels are found before the final -a, some people write just -a, other -
ja, so you will see both bia and bija.
Many such dialects are spoken on the Adriatic coast or near it, but not all dialects on
the coast are Ikavian.
Furthermore, most coastal dialects, be Ikavian or not, have another interesting
feature: in verb and case endings, where Standard Croatian has -m, they have -n