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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 83 Depth and Distance: Abstract Nouns 466 / 600

into ći (the sound wasn’t of today ć, but an early version of it, a kind of softened t).

Later, short i’s were dropped from ends of words (as from most other positions as

well). So, we are now left with t vs. ć.

Also, note the similarity of mog-tī with English may, might and German mögen, mag.

If we would go back in time, we would find many more similarities.

• Examples

There’s a song from Massimo, a Croatian pop singer — Tišina Silence:

Do tebe G me A nosi tišina N To you silence is carrying me

Na krilima DL vremena G

On wings of time

Mjesta G još uvijek ima

There’s still some room

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Kad zastanem pitat ću zvijezde A When I stop, I’ll ask stars

Koliko me A dijeli do tebe G How far I’m from you

I tvojih visina G

And your heights

(S. Bastiančić)

You can listen to it on YouTube.

Mjesta još uvijek ima is an existential construct, with a bit unusual word order.

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