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87 Player, Playroom and Playground: Common

Derivations

In this chapter, I will explain how various derived nouns, such as player, playroom

and playground are derived in Croatian.

The simplest nouns derived from verbs are of ‘player’ type. You simply remove the

infinitive ending, and the vowel before it (if any) and add -ač:

verb

birati choose

glasati vote

igrati play

kupati bathe

pjevati sing

plivati swim

plesati (pleše) dance

pušiti smoke

trčati (trči) run

voziti drive

‘player’ noun

birač elector, voter

glasač voter

igrač player

kupač bather

pjevač singer

plivač swimmer

plesač dancer

pušač smoker

trkač runner

vozač driver

As you can see, all these words are stressed in the same way: the ‘western’ stress on

-ač, and the standard stress on the syllable before it – therefore, the standard stress

moves in all these words:

igrač player → A igrača

The feminine versions are simply derived by adding -ica (and consequently moving

the standard stress):

igrač player (m) → igračica player (f)

pjevač singer (m) → pjevačica singer (f)

vozač driver (m) → vozačica driver (f)

While these nouns usually stand for people who do something, others derived in the

same way can stand for various hardware too (I’ve listed only derived nouns; you

can find verbs in a dictionary easily):

čitač reader

nosač carrier / prop

grijač heater ®

otvarač opener

prekidač switch

pokrivač cover

punjač charger

upaljač lighter

The word čitač reader is related to devices only (e.g. card reader, e-book reader):

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