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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 12 Simple Conversaons 74 / 600
When you are in company, and the others are about to start eating, you can say:
Dobar tek. (like French bon appétit) ®
If you are giving a thing to someone (a gift, whatever) you should use one of the
following words:
Izvoli. (fam.) Izvolite. (resp./group)
The word izvolite also means how can I help you. For instance, if you come to a
bank, a clerk will use the word to ask you what he or she can do for you. The same
word will be used by a waiter in a bar, restaurant, etc.
If you are given something, you should respond with:
Hvala. Thank you.
It’s often strengthened and made even more polite with lijepo (sometimes lijepa) or
a bit more colloquially, puno:
Hvala lijepo. Thank you. (politely)
If you want to say that someone is welcome, use the following expressions (they
depend on the gender of the person you’re talking to, unless you’re talking formally
or to a group:
Dobro došao. (to a male you’re familiar with)
Dobro došla. (to a female you’re familiar with)
Dobro došli. (to someone you aren’t familiar with, or to a group)
(The words došao, etc. are adjective-like forms of the verb, which are otherwise
used to form the past tense; it will be explained a bit later.)
If you want to express where someone is welcome to, use destinations, i.e. u¨ / na¨
+ A (English uses to, i.e. destinations as well):
Dobro došli u Hrvatsku! Welcome to Croatia! (to a group / not fam.)
You will often see the two words are spelled together, e.g. dobrodošao and like.
When leaving, you can use the following farewells:
do viđenja goodbye
laku noć good night
The farewell do viđenja – often spelled as doviđenja – is quite formal. The
following expressions are a bit less formal:
vidimo se see you
čujemo se (the same, but over the phone)
pozdrav bye
The following words are quite informal:
bok (Zagreb, Northwest Croatia)