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90 Number-like Words
There are several types of compound words derived from numbers.
The first type are derived adjectives of form number + measure. English examples
would be 10-inch or four-year. In Croatian, they are spelled without a hyphen – in
the standard spelling, at least – and the second part must be a (relational) adjective.
The first part is derived from the ‘compounding forms’ of numbers:
‘Compounding’ number forms
1- jedno- 10- deseto-
2- dvo- 11- jedanaesto-
3- tro- 12- dvanaesto-
4- četvero- 20- dvadeseto-
5- peto- 100- sto-
6- šesto- 200- dvjesto-
7- sedmo- 1000- tisućumany
8- osmo-
9- deveto- više-
For example:
trodnevni three-day
četverogodišnji four-year
četrdesetogodišnji forty-year
The linking vowel (-o- in most forms) appended to create the compound form is lost
in rare cases when an adjective begins with a vowel; it’s not lost if the vowel is a
part of the original number:
desetinčni 10-inch stoinčni 100-inch
Despite being spelled as one word, they often pronounced with two places of stress,
one on the number, another on the adjective. (You will occasionally see such
adjectives in a non-standard spelling, as two words, or even with a hyphen, e.g.
deset-inčni and deset inčni)
They are used as any other adjective:
Sutra počinje trodnevni festival. N A three-day festival begins tomorrow. počinjati
Bili smo na dvotjednom odmoru DL . We were on two-week vacation.
(Observe also placing of the indefinite subject after the verb.)
With forms derived from numbers based on 10 (10, 20, 50, etc.) you’ll sometimes
see forms without the vowel -o-, that is pedesetgodišnji besides usual
pedesetogodišnji. You will also see non-standard forms derived from numbers 5, 6
and 7, like ones for 4, that is: