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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 09 Numbers and Time 55 / 600

je² will come between two words:

Skoro je ponoć. It’s almost midnight.

Već je ponoć. It’s already midnight. (not earlier)

Tek je podne. It’s only noon. (not later)

As you can see, već here really means you have less time available (you lost track of

time, and expected it’s only 11 or so). The same happens when it’s used with time

references in the future, e.g. već u dva at 2 o’clock already – you expected it leaves

later, you have less time available than you expected.

Of course, the same holds if you use pet 5 instead of ponoć, etc.

Colloquially, time is often expressed in halves:

Brod dolazi u tri i pol. The ship comes at half past three. (‘three and a half’)

(In colloquial speech, there are several quite different ways to express time by

halves and quarters, and there are different ways according to region; see 58

Colloquial and Formal).

Here are days of week in Croatian:

ponedjeljak (ponedjeljk-) Monday

utorak (utork-) Tuesday

srijeda Wednesday

četvrtak (četvrtk-) Thursday

petak (petk-) Friday

subota Saturday

nedjelja Sunday

The week always starts on Monday. Days of week are normal nouns in Croatian,

they are not always capitalized as in English. (As other nouns, they change according

to their role, by means of case endings!)

We can simply say:

Danas je srijeda. Today is Wednesday.

If you want to say that something happens or will happen on a weekday, use again

u¨ + A:

U srijedu se vraćamo u Zagreb. We’re going back to Zagreb on Wednesday.

Kada Ana odlazi u Split? When is Ana leaving for Split?

— U subotu. On Saturday.

This quite familiar word can also be used:

vikend weekend

If something is going to happen on/over the weekend, use za¨ + vikend:

Idemo na Brač za vikend. We’re going to the island of Brač over the weekend.

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