Exercises. Determine the grammatical case of the underlined nouns in the following sentences: Zvonimir je u svojoj sobi. (Zvonimir is in his room.) ----I ask: WHERE he is? : This is LOKATIVE

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Exercises. Determine the grammatical case of the underlined nouns in the following sentences: Zvonimir je u svojoj sobi. (Zvonimir is in his room.) ----I ask: WHERE he is? : This is LOKATIVE case, right? Domagoj ide kući biciklom. (Domagoj is going home by bike.) ------I ask: With whom? This is INSTRUMENTAL case, right? Hrvatska je pobijedila na nogometnom natjecanju. (Croatia won the football tournament.) ------------I DONT UNDERSTAND THIS Thanks for help me!

Sep 21, 2014 11:36 PM

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Maybe this will help:

1. Zvonimir je u svojoj sobi. (Zvonimir is in his room.)

1) Tko je u svojoj sobi? (Who is in his/her room?) - Zvonimir.

- The nominative case answers the questions tko? (animate; who?) and što? (inanimate; what?).

- Zvonimir is the answer to who?, therefore it's in the nominative case.

2) U čemu je Zvonimir? (What is Zvonimir in?) - U svojoj sobi. (In his room.)

- The locative case answers the questions u komu? (in whom?) or u čemu? (in what?).

- U svojoj sobi is the answer to in what?, therefore it's in the locative case.

- If you ask the question Gdje je Zvonimir? (Where is Zvonimir?) you can't find out the case of a noun, because various prepositions (in, on, at, around, above, below, ...) go with different cases. The preposition u (in) can go with the accusative and locative cases, depending on the meaning. If it went with the accusative case, it would express motion towards something, for example: Zvonimir ide u svoju sobu. (Zvonimir is going to his room. - u svoju sobu is dative).

2. Domagoj ide kući biciklom. (Domagoj is going home by bike.)

1) Tko ide kući biciklom? (Who is going home by bike?) - Domagoj.

- Domagoj is in the nominative case.

2) Čime Domagoj ide kući? (Domagoj is going home using what?) - Biciklom. (By bike.)

- Bicikl > biciklom -- instrumental.

3) Kamo ide Domagoj biciklom? (Where to is Domagoj going by bike?) - Kući. (Home.)

- Kuća > kući -- dative.

- Here you can ask the question Kamo? (Where to?), because you can only reply to this question using dative. Otherwise, the normal questions used for dative are komu? / čemu?

3. Hrvatska je pobijedila na nogometnom natjecanju. (Croatia won the football tournament.)
1) Tko je pobijedio na nogometnom natjecanju? (Who won the football tournament?) - Hrvatska.

- Hrvatska is in the nominative case.

2) Na čemu je Hrvatska pobijedila? (What did Croatia win (on)?) - Na nogometnom natjecanju. (On the football tournament.)

- Nogometno natjecanje > nogometnom natjecanju - locative.

- This one is tricky. You just need to know that the verb pobijediti means "to win". For example - Pobijedio sam. (I won.)

If you put a noun in the accusative as the object of the verb, then it means "to beat (someone) (in a competition)". For example - Pobijedio sam te na natjecanju. (I beat you in the competition. / I won against you in the competition.) - te is the object; it answers the questions koga? / što?, so it's in the accusative case.

And if you put the preposition na after the verb and without an object, then it means "to win (something)" or "to win a prize at (something)". (You can see this in the example you gave.) Another example - Pobijedila je na Euroviziji. (She won the Eurovision song contest.)

I hope that helped a bit :)

September 22, 2014

Exercises.

Determine the grammatical case of the underlined nouns in the following sentences:

Zvonimir je u svojoj sobi. (Zvonimir is in his room.)

----I ask: WHERE he is he? : This is LOKATIVE case, right? - yes

Domagoj ide kući biciklom. (Domagoj is going home by bike.)

------I ask: With whom? This is INSTRUMENTAL case, right? - yes

Hrvatska je pobijedila na nogometnom natjecanju. (Croatia won the football tournament.)

------------I DONT UNDERSTAND THIS --- mixture of genitive and locative case (na natjecanju - "on" the tourment... nogometnom - genitive case (it tells us what is this torment like) )

Thanks for helping me!

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August 2, 2017

Third one is a lokative. Lokativ always come with one of these prepositions: na, o, po, pri, prema, u. Hrvatska je pobijedila NA nogometnom natjecanju. Since "natjecanje" is a neuter gender, in singular ending for word "natjecanje" is -u (for lokativ), and for plural is -ima (natjecanjima; lokativ)

September 22, 2014

Exercises.

Determine the grammatical case of the underlined nouns in the following sentences:

Zvonimir je u svojoj sobi. (Zvonimir is in his room.)

----I ask: WHERE he is? : This is LOKATIVE case, right?

Domagoj ide kući biciklom. (Domagoj is going home by bike.)

------I ask: With whom? This is INSTRUMENTAL case, right?

Hrvatska je pobijedila na nogometnom natjecanju. (Croatia won the football tournament.)

------------I DONT UNDERSTAND THIS

UNDERLINED WORDS

A ) in first sentence:

Zvonimir - svojoj - sobi

B) in the second sentence

Domagoj - kući - biciklom;

C ) and in the third:

Hrvatska - nogometnom - natjecanju

Thanks for help me!

September 21, 2014