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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 11 Colors, More Adjecves and Adverbs 65 / 600

Majica je šarena. The shirt is multicolored. (has bright colors)

There are two adjectives for colors that are used colloquially. Both have a special

behavior – they don’t change their form at all, neither in plural, nor in gender, nor in

cases. They have only one form. Such words are called indeclinable (indecl. for

short). They are:

lila pale violet

roza pink ®

colloquial &

indeclinable

(The colloqual adjective for pink exists also as a normal adjective rozi.)

With colors and some similar adjectives, you can use the following adverbs that

stress completeness:

potpuno

sasvim

completely, fully

The adverb potpuno is much more common in speech. For example:

Soba je potpuno bijela. The room is completely white.

You can also combine colors: the first one is always in neuter N, and the second one

changes; they are usually spelled with a hyphen between:

crno-bijeli televizor black-and-white TV set

crno-bijela majica black-and-white T-shirt

crveno-plava zastava red-and-blue flag

Some adjectives have a slightly different form in the masculine nominative (which is

the dictionary form) and whenever anything is attached to them (e.g. when they get

an -a for the feminine gender).

For instance, the adjective dobar good has the feminine form dobra, that is dobr +

a. Other forms that have any ending are also formed as dobr + ending.

In the same way as for some nouns, can say that dobr- is the case-base of the

adjective dobar and list it together with the dictionary form. For most adjectives

their case-base is the same as their masculine form, so we list it only when it’s

needed. A good Croatian dictionary should list it too (or something equivalent to it,

e.g. the feminine form).

Often used adjectives that have a specific case-base are:

dobar (dobr-) good

gladan (gladn-) hungry

hladan (hladn-) cold

mokar (mokr-) wet

mračan (mračn-) dark

opasan (opasn-) dangerous

prazan (prazn-) empty

sladak (slatk-) sweet

sretan (sretn-) happy ®

strašan (strašn-) terrible

taman (tamn-) dark

tužan (tužn-) sad

umoran (umorn-) tired

važan (važn-) important

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