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occasionally other animals, even some products). They are derived from the
‘compounding forms’ with appended godišnji by further appending -njak (m) and -
njakinja (f). As with the most other male/female pairs, the male form is also
generic/default:
Četverogodišnjaci N vole trčati. Four-year-olds like to run. (i.e. Four-year-old kids)
The fifth type are compound adjectives and adverbs derived with -struk, standing for
multiplicity:
Multiplicity adjectives
jednostruk one-fold, single-layer
dvostruk
dupli (colloq.)
double
trostruk
triple
četverostruk fourfold
peterostruk 5-fold
šesterostruk 6-fold
... ...
deseterostruk 10-fold
... ...
dvadeseterostruk 20-fold
stostruk
100-fold
mnogostruk
višestruk
multiple, manifold
As you can see, they are derived from numbers in a specific way – from
‘compounding forms’, but for numbers 5 and over, there’s extra -ero- inserted
between the ‘compounding form’ and the suffix -struk. While all these words are
really used, some, like jedanaesterostruk 11-fold are very rare. All these words are
adjectives, for example:
Razgovarali smo s trostrukim prvacima Europe I . We talked to three-time European
champions. (lit. ‘triple champions of Europe’)
The adjectives mnogostruk and višestruk are very common.
All these adjectives, in neuter form, are used as adverbs too, so you can tell how
many times something is better:
Novi mobitel N je dvostruko bolji N . The new cellphone is twice better.
Novi mobitel N je duplo bolji N . (colloq., the same meaning)
Instead of dvostruk, the colloquial word dupli is very common in speech.