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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 10 Gender 59 / 600
and Ivan’s. They all must adapt to noun gender and case.
So, what forms of adjectives do we need to use in each gender? In simple sentences
like the house is big, nominative forms of adjectives are used, and they are very
simple:
gender adj. N example
feminine -a velika riba big fish
neuter -o (some -e) veliko jezero big lake
masculine optionally -i velik(i) stol big table ®
You probably notice that there are two possible endings for the neuter gender. Most
adjectives use -o; adjectives that need -e will be shown a bit later. Here’s a list of
often used adjectives:
brz fast
čist clean
dubok deep
dug long
gotov ready, done
jak strong
jeftin cheap
lijep nice, beautiful
mali small, little
mlad young
nov new
poznat well-known
pun full
slab weak
skup expensive
spor slow
star old
širok wide
suh dry ®
velik big
visok high, tall
zdrav healthy, in good health
We can use them to assemble sentences like these:
Riba je velika. The fish is big.
Velika riba jede kruh. The big fish is eating bread.
jesti
Sunce nije jako. The sun isn’t strong.
Jezero je duboko. The lake is deep.
Ana je zdrava. Ana is healthy.
Restoran nije skup. The restaurant isn’t expensive.
Visoka je. She’s tall.
You can see that adjectives got an -o regardless of nouns having the final -o or -e:
it’s only gender that matters, and both jezero and sunce are neuter.
In Croatian (like in other Slavic and Romance languages) adjectives always adapt to
the noun, even if they are not right next to the noun. In German, adjectives in
sentences like The fish is big don’t adapt. That’s one detail where Croatian requires
words to change and German doesn’t. This makes pronouns mostly redundant, and
consequently not used, as in the last sentence, where ona she is implied by the form
of the adjective. Pay attention that in Croatian, kuća house and pizza are also she,