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The Street Names

How to say the street names in Croatian?

The Use of Genitive

Usually when talking about streets in Croatia, they are mostly named after certain people or historical events. For the purposes of this lesson, we will look only at the streets that are named after certain people.

In these given examples, as you can see, we need to use the Genitive case. The use of Genitive is required because we are expressing the notion “of something/someone” (the street of…).

The Use of Possessive Adjective

Most of the time the street names expressed in Genitive case can be simplified in conversation by using the possessive adjective form. When talking about street names, we will take the very last part of the street name (i.e., the last name of a person) and we will make the possessive adjective form expressing that something belongs to someone. In these examples: Matoš’s street and Kumičić’s street.

Museums, Squares, Monuments, Statues

This same rule of using the Genitive case applies for museums, galleries, squares, monuments, statues, and other institutions that are named after a certain person. Pay attention! The difference between male and female forms.