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There’s one more useful, but very colloquial word, mostly used by younger people. It
can be used as an adjective and as an adverb of intensity with another adjective or a
verb. (Its use with verbs is very colloquial!) When used as an adjective, it’s
indeclinable:
super (colloq.)
adj. indecl. great, excellent, superb
adv. super, very
For instance, you’ll hear and sometimes read:
Imam super majicu. (colloq.) I have a great shirt.
Auto je super brz. (colloq.) The car is super fast.
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Ana super pjeva. (colloq.!) Ana sings great.
Finally, there’s one very useful word used for comparisons:
kao like, as
While English has two words used to compare against something else, Croatian has
one multipurpose word. It’s used like this:
More je hladno kao led. The sea is cold as ice.
The word kao doesn’t affect the case of the following word, and never changes case
etc. In speech, it’s often shortened to ko, spelled also as k’o.
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® Instead of narančast, a slightly different adjective is used in Serbia: narandžast.
It’s also common in Bosnia. Besides smeđ, there’s another, but indeclinable
adjective for brown, used in Bosnia and Serbia: braon. It completely prevails in
Serbia, where smeđ is really only used to describe eyes, hair and color of pets.
Instead of roza, a slightly different word roze is common in Serbia and Bosnia. It’s
very uncommon in the regularized form rozi there.
Instead of sretan (sretn-), a slightly different word srećan (srećn-) is used in Serbia
and most of Bosnia.
Some style guides in Serbia discourage using puno as an adverb and advise mnogo is
used instead.