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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 78 Dijete vs. Dite 439 / 600

instead:

verb Std. pres-1 coast

biti (je² +) be sam san

imati have imam iman

For nouns and adjectives (example for the instrumental case):

word Std. I coast

žena woman/wife ženom ženon

moj my

m, n mojim mojin

f mojom mojon

This change affects only word-final m's: endings -mo (pres-1pl) or -ma (DLI-pl)

aren't affected.

There's another feature that doesn't completely overlap with the change from -m to

-n: loss of lj. Instead, such dialects have usually just j:

Standard word coast

people ljudi m pl. judi

love ljubav f jubav

trouble nevolja nevoja

There are some specific constructions used today in Split and the surrounding area.

The most common is:

u¨ + G (Split area) = std. kod¨ + G

Therefore, you often hear and read u nas instead of kod nas for at our place, here

(i.e. German bei uns).

Furthermore, there are a lot of specific words in Dalmatia (this list is by no means

exhaustive, there are many hundreds specific words):

Standard word Dalmatia

pillow jastuk kušin

towel ručnik šugaman

clock, hour sat ura

plate (to eat from) tanjur pjat

fork vilica pirun

Many of these words also appear in the Northern Adriatic, i.e. in the Rijeka area and

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