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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 05 Accusave Case 28 / 600

05 Accusative Case

In the previous chapters you’ve learned how to use nouns that end in -a (in their

dictionary form) as objects, that is, how to make their accusative (object) form (also

called case). But what about other nouns?

First, there are general nouns that end in -o or -e. They usually don’t change at all in

the accusative case, that is, they can be used as objects in their dictionary (or

nominative) form. For instance:

auto car

jutro morning

meso meat

mlijeko milk

nebo sky, skies

more sea

pismo letter

pivo beer

vino wine

voće fruit, fruits

We can (and must!) use them as objects without any change:

Pijem pivo. I’m drinking beer.

piti

Ana gleda more. Ana is watching the sea.

Goran pije vino. Goran is drinking wine.

piti

Jedem voće. I’m eating fruits.

jesti

Ivan pije mlijeko. Ivan is drinking milk.

piti

Pišem pismo. I’m writing a letter.

pisati

Ivana vozi auto. Ivana is driving a car.

There are two useful and similar verbs:

vidjeti (vidi) (can) see voljeti (voli) like, love ®

These two verbs change from -jeti in inf to -i in pres-3. That happens for almost all

verbs in -jeti, and can be considered regular, therefore, I usually won’t list pres-3

forms for such verbs. Some examples:

Vidim more. I (can) see the sea.

Ana voli pivo. Ana likes beer.

Then, there are nouns that end in a consonant (nouns that end in -i or -u are very

rare in Croatian). Their behavior depends on what they stand for. If they stand for

anything except people or animals, they also don’t change in accusative:

brod ship

film movie

kruh bread ®

ručak lunch, dinner

sok juice

vlak train ®

Let’s introduce two more useful verbs:

poznavati (poznaje) know (someone)

rezati (reže) cut

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