Cjelina 10: Razgledavanje grada

🧩 10 | 1 | Lekcija 2: Poklon za rođendan – Vokabular

Savezne Države SAD-a

Look at the map to learn the names of the 50 states in Croatian. As you can see, some of them will keep their English forms (Missouri, Utah, Washington, Pennsylvania, etc.), while others will be adjusted to the Croatian writing system (Taksas, Havaji, Južna Karolina, Sjeverna Karolina, Novi Meksiko, etc.).

Map of USA with state names

Zemlje u Europi

Look at the map to get familiar with the countries that are (potentially) the most relevant for you and possible conversations you might have with your classmates.

Europe countries map

Izreke

Phrases that you have encountered in today’s lesson. You can often hear these when people talk to their close friends or relatives.

man thinking

Svakodnevni govor Rečenice iz dijaloga
Biti crven/-a kao rak. Ines je crvena kao rak.
Jezik brži od pameti. Nekada ti je jezik brži od pameti.
Biti spor/-a k’o puž. Matija je spora k’o puž.
Biti zmija. Marina je prava zmija.
Dobar kao kruh. On je dobar kao kruh.
Zelena grana. Ti i ona nikako na zelenu granu.
Jednim udarcem dvije muhe. Meni se ideja sviđa. Jednim udarcem dvije muhe.
Jezik za zube. Drži jezik za zubima, rekla sam ti.

Glagoli

These are verbs that we encountered today. You encountered some of these in their perfective form and some in their imperfective form. Here, you can find a complete list (perfective and imperfective pairs), with the first person singular form given as well.

English  Perfective  Imperfective
to travel otputovati (ja otputujem) putovati (ja putujem)
to choose odabrati (ja odaberem) odabirati (ja odabirem)
to mention spomenuti (ja spomenem) spominjati (ja spominjem)
to keep pridržati (ja pridržim) držati (ja držim)
to worry pobrinuti se (ja se pobrinem) brinuti se (ja se brinem)
to go / to start going poći (ja pođem) polaziti (ja polazim)
to arrive doći (ja dođem) dolaziti (ja dolazim)
to find naći (ja nađem) nalaziti (ja nalazim)
to leave otići (ja otiđem) odlaziti (ja odlazim)

🧩 Vocabulary list

Hrvatski English
biti slobodan to be free
biti siguran to be sure
blizu near
daleko od far from
destinacija destination
detalj detail
ispod below
istočno od east of
izlet trip
iznenađenje surprise
karta map / ticket
nedaleko od not far from
odabrati to choose
odlučiti to decide
organizirati to organize
platiti to pay
pokraj next to
proslaviti to celebrate
savezna država federal state
sjeverno od north of
slobodno vrijeme free time
smisliti to come up with
smještaj accommodation
spor slow
uspjeti to manage / succeed
zapadno od west of
zemlja country

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