EasyCroatian_r47.an

Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 78 Dijete vs. Dite 443 / 600
form) uses G (druge) instead of A (drugu) for its object, when negated. (This is not a
classic perf. verb, as you cannot "complete" wish: such verbs will be explained in 81
Sneeze Once and Start Blooming.)
You can check a performance by a big choir, made of merged klapa's on YouTube.
There's more. In early 21st century, the most influential group from Split – in a
category of its own, kind of mixture of pop, hip-hop and traditional sounds – is The
Beat Fleet, usually shortened to TBF. Any song performed by them is worth listening;
their works touch a wide range of themes, including love, everyday life, drugs, urban
decay, politics.
This is a kind of love song, Fantastična Fantastic (f) – about a friend who becomes a
drug addict and hallucinates having a girlfriend, literally a fantasy:
Mara N nije ima mobitel A Mara had no cellphone
nikad nije bia doma
I onda jednog jutra A
he was never at home
And then one morning
sam ga A srea isprid lifta G I met him in front of the elevator 3m/n | sresti
a Mara N je bia sritan N and Mara was happy
ka nikad like never (before)
I sta je pričat:
And he started to talk:
upozna sam I've met
ljubav A svog života G the love of my life
f
prije misec A dana G a month ago
Kad sam se spustia When I went down
G do dućana to the store
Po kruv A i mliko A
To get bread and milk
u onoj plastičnoj boci DL in that plastic bottle
Na blagajni DL ugleda te oči A I saw those eyes at the checkout
f
(Aleksandar Antić)
One form is worth explaining: in parts of Dalmatia, the verb stati (stane) perf. come
to stand also means start, begin.
The language in their songs is how younger people in Split actually speak, there is a
lot of influence from Standard Croatian (here srea instead of Ikavian sria, prije
instead of Ikavian pri, later you can hear tjedan week, a word which is traditionally
not used in Dalmatia, etc.), a lot of local slang, words offensive to some (older
people) etc. Check the live performance on YouTube.