Quickly Learn How and When To Use The Genitive Case in Croatian

Navigate through the video:
01:07 - The use of the Genitive case introduction
02:32 - Use Genitive to express belonging, partiality, quantity...
09:18 - Use the Genitive case with the majority of prepositions
Check out our Part 2 video explaining how to use the Genitive to express possession in Croatian: • The Genitive Case: How...
If you want to learn more about the Genitive case, check out our article learn-croatian.com/genitive/.

[@okokok1178]

Croatian is such an underrated language! I want more people to learn it. Btw these videos are amazing! You deserve so many more subscribers 😊

[@learncroatian9135]

Thank you very much! I'm so glad you like them and that they are helpful :)

[@helenlouiseadams]

They definitely should! It’s a beautiful language.

[@stephanicristobalramirez3138]

BOK!! SAM SRETNA , to find this video, i love all your material, is very very helpful, I really understand the genitive kase, Ines, ti si dobra učiteljica!!!

[@learncroatian9135]

Bok! I'm so glad you find the materials helpful! Thank you for your sweet compliments! :)

[@LottaGlots]

hvala! thanks for helping me learn Croatian grammatical rules!

[@sevalanguagelessons]

Izvrsno. Hvala lijepa.

[@user-dc8iq9ez1e]

Muchas gracias!!!! La explicación es muy clara!!!! Ha sido de gran ayuda!

[@sleeplesshead602]

This is my forever struggle learning Croatian 😂 but it gives me such benefit in pronunciation because it fits my southeast asian tongue because some words are similar to my language.

[@learncroatian9135]

Keep at it! Keep learning :)

[@benbielert6793]

Your videos are amazing! Very helpful for this Canadian with Croatian ancestry. I have been trying to learn Croatian for the last year and your videos are an amazing resource that I just discovered. Very clear and extremely helpful. Thank you!

[@learncroatian9135]

My pleasure! Hoping to make more!

[@jessicamildrum1126]

Hvala vam. To je vrlo korisno :-)

[@learncroatian9135]

Nema na čemu :)

[@JLizard]

13:02 After mispelled... this is an awesome video. Hvala Ines!

[@boazgubany3403]

Hvala vam! You are the best! Very helpful videos!🙏

[@learncroatian9135]

Thank you!

[@alannamarohnic4722]

You are the best!

[@sylgusic7099]

Hvala lijepo ! ucim Hrvatske. Sam iz Francuzke

[@learncroatian9135]

Bravo!

[@Immortalsouls]

Man.. the amount of times I've been made to look silly because of these nouns and genetive instances. Thanks for this video 🇭🇷

[@learncroatian9135]

Be patient and kind to yourself. Cases are hard 😑 Keep up the good work, though!

[@drinapetra]

thank you for the clear explanations! very helpful.

[@learncroatian9135]

My pleasure!

[@fraserkizitochipata1689]

so helpful....hvala vam

[@omarissa4373]

Hvala puno iz ZANZIBAR ❣️🌹💞

[@learncroatian9135]

Nema na čemu! Pozdrav Zanzibaru!

[@ekonomist5]

....ZanzibarA 🙂

[@meryemlazar2323]

Love it please make more videos ❤️

[@hossammohssen7157]

hvala vam puno :)

[@bulldose5255]

svaka cast

[@learncroatian9135]

Hvala!

[@user-qr4ic5ev2l]

Genitive case in croatian looks like genitive in spanish, comes to second after word "de", for example "car keys = las llaves del coche". "coche" is the possesor and comes after "del" and "llaves" is the possesion.

[@pooriaheidary6204]

Thank you Ines, for teaching us the sweetest language in the word. As you may know this video is dropped from the "Grammatical Cases" playlist. So would you please add it (in the second position)!?

[@learncroatian9135]

Oh, sorry, just seeing this comment now! I'll add it back in! Thanks!

[@margaretpaton2689]

Hey, thank you, Innes and team, for your amazing content that is helping lift me out of the plateau zone of many years with my Cro lingo learning. Checking in what the plans are for Learn Croatian ... will you run workshops or online courses? Such rich resources. Thank you again.

[@bihaccity8940]

Enis sada ucim.hrvatski ali mnogo si slatka kao med i mnogo volim.te najvise lijepotica si najvise ja nisam.bosanac i hrvat ka sam.grk

[@praneethdarshana]

thank you

[@perryzutshi5232]

Hello Ines! Your videos are simply brilliant. I have learnt a lot through them. One small question. You've given the genitive endings for the singular nouns in the three respective genders. What are the endings for the plural nouns? Thanks a lot!!

[@learncroatian9135]

At the time I made the video, I didn't want to focus on the plural, to keep it more simple, but people asked about it so I started adding them to other videos... 😅 It's a little hard to write them on here. See if you can see them here: docs.google.com/document/d/15K6OuOIS-Yv2yYtNwHkZEtQ04kE28GJkv65QvBw0Xnc/edit?usp=sharing

[@perryzutshi5232]

Thank you so much !!!!

[@perryzutshi5232]

Hi! In the case of feminine adjectives ending in a consonant, the example that you've given is "mračna" but it ends in a vowel.

[@learncroatian9135]

Hi! Thank you for your question! The note in the brackets was referring to the nouns and how to tell the grammatical gender of each noun. So, the feminine nouns can either end in - a, which is the most common ending, or a consonant. That's what I was referring to. However, the Genitive adjective has the ending - e (for singular adjectives). The reason why I put the note about the nouns is because the adjective has to match the noun in gender, case and count, but it has different endings sometimes. Does that make sense?

[@perryzutshi5232]

@@learncroatian9135 Sorry, stupid question. You were talking about feminine nouns ending in consonants and I took it as adjectives ending in consonant. My bad !!!

[@learncroatian9135]

@@perryzutshi5232 No worries 😉

[@jeetu9283]

Could you make a video about the passive and active voice in croatian?

[@learncroatian9135]

Hi! Thank you for the suggestion! I certainly can. I can't promise when yet, though. Until then, is there something I can help you with in particular?

[@jeetu9283]

@@learncroatian9135 Yeah, for sure i will wait. so can you make a video about the how to write essay in Croatian? essential vocabs for B2 Level and rules.

[@learncroatian9135]

@@jeetu9283 unfortunately I haven't planned to make any videos concerning those things. I'm mostly focusing on grammar for now.

[@sofiacelaya8046]

que ordenado es el lenguaje croata, es el lenguage con mas tiene sentido. asi que por possesion word u have to change the verb like u said i mean the last letter ?

[@Usy122]

How do you tell the feminine nouns apart from the masculine that don't end with an -a? Is there a rule how you can tell them apart or is it something you just have to learn?

[@learncroatian9135]

It is something you have to learn. There isn't any particular rule for it, unfortunately. However, there aren't too many of them. Majority of feminine nouns end on -a.

[@Usy122]

@@learncroatian9135 I can't believe you've replied to me so quickly! I'm mind-blown actually, thank you so much! You're correct, I've googled it in the meantime. Basically, all the nouns that end on -ost are feminine and around a 100 which, as you said, need to be memorized, so it's not that bad. Again, thank You 😌

[@gerardk51]

Can you tell me which is correct: Učim svakog dana or učim svaki dan Thanks.

[@learncroatian9135]

Certainly! Actually, you can use either one. Both (the genitive and accusative) in this example express an adverb of time and both can be used and both are correct.

[@gerardk51]

@@learncroatian9135 Hvala!

[@learncroatian9135]

@@gerardk51 Nema na čemu!

[@gerardk51]

@@learncroatian9135 Ah that is like Polish: Nie ma za co! I'm trying to learn a little Polish also. It is difficult. Trudny język.

[@learncroatian9135]

@@gerardk51 yes, these languages are quite similar, I think.

[@lzsuzsa1]

ok. So how do you say "there is butter on the slice of bread" ? Thank you for the answer.

[@learncroatian9135]

Maslac je na kriški/krišci (both Dativs are correct) kruha (Genitive).

[@drazenbicanic3590]

Ne bi bilo loše spomenuti naglasak, npr. ŽENE mogu biti gen-singular ili nom-plural, razlikuju se po naglasku. It would not be bad to mention the accent, for example WOMEN can be genitv-singular or nominativ-plural, they differ in accent

[@j.cgallagher7092]

So no rules anywhere essentially, just through in any ending to any word and hope for the best. Brilliant .

[@deancj1]

?????????

[@j.cgallagher7092]

@@deancj1 lol! I've got no idea what I meant myself! Makes no sense. I must have been very drunk that night!

[@bihaccity8940]

Imas decka

[@John-cm6pk]

Inez is a very beautiful woman...

[@Ashwanikumar-yh1rw]

can you teach privately