EasyCroatian_r47.an

Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / A5 Word Order 519 / 600
U mojoj je sobi hladno. (formal)
Names are rarely split even in formal writing, but you can see it sometimes:
Ivana je Horvat ovdje. (very rare)
These "phrases" can hold the 1st position, but are sometimes split even in everyday
speech:
Hold the 1st position: splitting is optional
Jako dugo je čekala.
intensity adverb + adverb
She waited for a very long time.
Troje ljudi te čeka.
number + noun
Three people are waiting for you.
Puno ljudi te čeka.
quantity + noun
A lot people are waiting for you.
Skoro uvijek je hladno.
adverb
baš absolutely
It's cold almost always.
+
skoro almost
pronoun/
adjective
Baš svi su ovdje.
Absolutely everybody is here.
Other combinations cannot form such "phrases". For example, opet again + verb is
not such a phrase, and it cannot hold the 1st position:
Opet se igra. He/she is playing again.
Word order in clauses
Clauses have their own second position; if they start with a conjunction (e.g. jer in
the following example), any second-position words come right after it:
Trava¹ je² mokra [jer¹ je² padala kiša]. The grass is wet because it has rained.
Sometimes, short time adverbs – such as sad(a) now, još still and već already – are
placed immediately after jer, second position words come after the adverb. For
example:
Ne želim knjigu A [jer¹ već¹ sam ju² pročitao]. I don’t want the book [because I’ve
already read it].
The same can happen with stressed pronouns (e.g. meni).
This quite rare.
(the rest is coming soon)...