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With this suffix, the stress is basically unpredictable, as you can see, but it seems
that with verbs, the more common pattern is the stress on the first syllable, while
nouns derived from nouns get the ‘western’ stress on -ar, and the standard stress on
the syllable before it – which makes the standard stress again movable.
The suffix -ar derives nouns from verb roots, which might be visible only in past
forms or in the present tense:
peći (peče, pekao, pekla) bake → pekar baker
From such nouns, feminine versions are derived in the usual way:
kuhar cook (m) → kuharica cook (f)
slikar painter (m) → slikarica painter (f)
zubar dentist (m) → zubarica dentist (f) ®
Another suffix that gets attached to both verbs and nouns is -nik:
verb
‘player’ noun
koristiti use
korisnik user
liječiti cure liječnik physician ®
početi (počne) perf. begin početnik beginner
vjerovati (vjeruje) believe vjernik believer
ljubav f love
ljubavnik lover
moć f might, ability moćnik person in power
put way
putnik traveler
rad work
radnik worker
rat war
ratnik warrior
vlast f government, rule vlasnik owner
(The form početnik is derived a bit irregularly; the loss of -t- in korisnik and vlasnik
is regular in Croatian, recall the adjective bolestan (bolesn-) sick, where the -t- is
lost between s and n.)
From all such nouns, feminine nouns are derived in this way:
putnik traveler (m) → putnica traveler (f)
vlasnik owner (m) → vlasnica owner (f)
However, there are nouns derived with -nik that have nothing to do with people:
čaj tea → čajnik teapot
riječ f word → rječnik dictionary
ruda ore → rudnik mine
ruka hand/arm → ručnik towel
zlato gold → zlatnik gold coin