Learn Croatian - a COMPLETE Guide to Mastering the Past Tense in Croatian

Learn all you need to know about the past tense in Croatian. The perfect tense is one of four past tenses and one mostly used in everyday speech. You will also learn how to make negative and interrogative sentences using the Croatian perfect tense.
This video is a part of our Croatian Verbs series, so make sure to check other videos out as well.
• Croatian Verbs
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The video is divided into several parts:
01:10 - How to form the perfect tense
10:02 - Exceptions (verbs that end on -ći, -jeti, -sti)
16:03 - Practice the perfect tense
17:20 - Word order in the perfect tense
22:25 - How to form the negative sentences
25:47 - How to ask questions
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[@renatofigueiredo603]

Cool class. Question of the day: If I say "I was reading a book when he arrieved", in Croatian would be "Čitao sam knjigu kad je stigao"; but if I want to say "I have been reading a book weekly" in Croatian must I use the perfective - "Pročitao sam knjigu tjedno"?

[@learncroatian9135]

Pročitao sam knjigu tjedno would be I had read a book a week. For the present perfect (I have been reading) you could use the present tense but the perfective verb - pročitam knjigu tjedno. I read a book every week - svakog tjedna pročitam jednu knjigu.

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Hi Ines! I was looking into possessive adjectives in Croatian and I was confused on when to use each ending (Like -ov, -ski, -in). I know how they follow the gender/case, but is there a rule of what ending you would use depending on the word? Because I think brodski is the possessive adjective form of brod, and mamina is the adjective form of mama, so is there a way of knowing how to form it depending on the word? Hopefully this makes sense, thank you 😂

[@learncroatian9135]

Hi Hunter! This is a great question! I'll be making a video about adjectives and possessive adjectives are quite important. Thr general rule of tthumb is that you use - ov, - ev, - in for possessive adjectives derived from personal names and you write them with a capital letter, while -ski, -ški -čki normally is derived from names of countries and geographical places, and these are not capitalized. I would need to explain more but it's tough to do here. Let me make a video about it in the next few weeks and I'll try to clear it up more.

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Hi John! Life's been a bit cray in the last few weeks. I have recorded to content but need to put it together. I hope to have it ready by the end of the week! Sorry about the delay...

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So in a sentence: Neka je lijepa djevojka nas vidjela u gradu. The word order is correct?

[@learncroatian9135]

You would either put the pronoun second, before the auxiliary verb in this case. Neka nas je lijepa djevojka vidjela u gradu. Check out the video about personal pronouns for more information.

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I just asked my dad. He said... "Moji su xxxxx past tense of verb" or "Moji xxxx su past tense of verb"... Is the same thing. Natives don't tell the difference or care too. Then he went on rant about how his village in virovitica 70 years ago didn't need school and could speak blah blah without degrees. Lol

[@learncroatian9135]

Hahahahhahah! Your dad is absolutely right ahahha! Well, as far as the position of the auxiliary verb is concerned, for locals it doesn't really matter if it's in the second place or not. I just thought it would be helpful for new learners to have the rule to follow. Which is actually the most correct way to speak even though a lot of locals don't follow or even know about the rule.

[@netcalibur]

17:37 how come "knjiga" became "knjigu"? You didn't explain

[@learncroatian9135]

The noun knjiga changed the case. It became the direct object in the sentence so it changed from Nominative case to Accusative case.

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