⚙️ 1 | 1 | Lekcija 1: Dobar dan! – Gramatika

Dr. Frane Karabatić

Cjelina 1: Dobro došli!

⚙️ 1 | 1 | Lekcija 1: Dobar dan! – Gramatika

Personal pronouns + verb “to be”

James practicing grammar

🪧 Personal pronouns

Croatian has personal pronouns indicating a specific person or a group of people. By now you have already seen several personal pronouns in Croatian:

audio	singular pronouns	audio	plural pronouns
	ja – I		mi – We
	ti – You		vi / Vi – You [all]
	on – He		oni – They (m)
	ona – She		one – They (f)
	ono – It		ona – They (n)

At the very beginning, you will mostly work only with pronouns ja, ti, on, ona that you encountered in this lesson. We will work with the rest of the personal pronouns later in the unit.

👨🏻‍💻 Practice

What did we learn?

1.1.1 Zadatak 1. Osobne zamjenice

Use the given image to check your understanding of personal pronouns in Croatian. Choose a matching pronoun. Tko je…? (Who is…)

1.1.1 Zadatak 2. Ja, ti, on, ona…

Look at the following set of pictures. Place the beginning of the sentences next to the appropriate picture. Which pronoun corresponds to the given image?

☰ The verb BITI (to be)

The verb ‘biti’ (to be) is the most used verb in Croatian. In the Present Tense it has two forms, a stressed and unstressed form. However, for now we will look only at its unstressed form.

Unstressed form

audio	singular pronoun	audio	plural pornouns
	ja sam – I am		mi smo – We are
	ti si – You are		vi ste – You [all] are
	on je – He is		oni su – They are (m)
	ona je – She is		one su – They are (f)
	ono je – It is		ona su – They are (n)

For short sentences, like saying that you are a student or an instructor, you MUST ALWAYS use a pronoun in front of the verb. You can only say: Ja sam student (studentica)… Ti si student (studentica). You cannot say: Sam student*.