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separately in tables of noun and adjective endings. I mean, really separately – D is in
the third row, and L in the sixth row. (In Serbia, L is often in the last, seventh, row!)
Incredibly, even some web pages intended for foreigners who try to learn Croatian
list these cases separately, having maybe just a small remark somewhere “these two
cases have the same endings”.
It’s as if some people are trying to make the language more complex than it really is.
For instance, this table I found on the Internet has the D and L cases separately, but
it also has an error – it says that the D of nouns in -a (‘Class II’ in the table) has the
ending -u, which is, of course, wrong (it has -i):
Also, ‘functions’ listed in the table are quite misleading in many ways. (Just in a case
somebody might find this table here and share it, I’ve added the overlay don’t use
this.) Such things are some of reasons I’ve decided to write this small ‘course’.
It’s also interesting that this distinction of D and L applies to modern grammars. In
Institutionum linguae illyricae libri duo – a grammar published in 1604 by
Bartholomaeus Cassius, usually known in Croatia as Bartol Kašić – there’s only one
case listed in singular.
Swedish also distinguishes where (var) from where... to (vart).
• Exercise
Fill in the right forms of adjectives and other words:
Igor živi ____(a) ________(b). Igor lives at the seaside.
Ana kuha ____(c) ____________(d). Ana is cooking in the kitchen.
Mi ____(e) ____(f) __________(g). We’re at the beach.
________(h) ________(i) Goran? Where’s Goran?
Slušam pjesmu ____(j) ____(k). I’m listening to a song on the radio.
Dubrovnik ____(l) ____(m) ________(n). Dubrovnik is in the south.
Mi smo ____(o) __________(p). We’re at lunch.
Check answers here.