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vacation; when somebody is u moru, it’s swimming or diving.
What about at work? Again, we use na¨ with activities like these:
posao (posl-) m work, job
ručak (ručk-) lunch
sastanak (sastank-) meeting
For example:
Ivan je na poslu. Ivan is at work.
Ana je na sastanku. Ana is in a meeting.
Damir je na ručku. Damir is at lunch.
Croatian doesn’t distinguish in a meeting from at the meeting. In fact, Croatian
doesn’t have anything similar to English at – it’s always ‘in the park’, ‘on the beach’
etc.
To ask where something or someone is, just start a question with the following word
(this word varies a lot in everyday speech, e.g. you can hear di colloquially in some
parts of Croatia, including cities of Zagreb, Split and Rijeka):
gdje where ®
Nothing else is needed, there’s no change of word order; as usual in Croatian, it’s
normal to answer with just a location, or you can give a longer answer if you want
to emphasize the rest of the sentence:
Gdje je Ivan? Where is Ivan?
— Na putu. On a trip.
— Na putu je. He’s on a trip.
Gdje je Damir?
— Na telefonu. On the phone. (i.e. talking)
Standard Croatian (and many people in speech) always distinguishes gdje where
from kamo where... to, but many people in speech use gdje where for both.
If you have examined the sentences above very carefully, you might have noticed
that the stress of fakultet changed in DL. The same happens to kolač, telefon, and
to many other nouns:
N
kolač
fakultet
telefon
koncert
+ DL ending
kolaču
fakultetu
telefonu
koncertu