Quickly Learn the Croatian Grammatical Cases in This Detailed Video

00:47 What is a grammatical case?
05:00 How many cases are there in Croatian?
05:52 How do you determine a case?

[@96Stargal]

Finally someone not just showing the first and only 20 beginner sentences. Teach me how to hold a conversation and make sense of the words!

[@learncroatian9135]

You are so welcome! I'm so glad you find them helpful. I'm working on more.

[@rzmaj9814]

I recently decided I wanted to learn Croatian and I was struggling with the basics, I didn't know even where to start and was about to give up so I'm glad I found your channel! Things are starting to make more sense to me now.

[@learncroatian9135]

I'm so glad you're here! If there's anything I can help you with or you have any questions, let me know!

[@dipeshacharya8848]

Thank you very much❤ Havala puno❤

[@SlavicandScandinavianGirlLover]

You’re a very good teacher

[@sebbo_h7121]

Wow, the Latin I studied in middle school is actually helping me a lot with the cases, except for the instrumental, all of these cases are in latin too, very cool. Ty so much, croatian seems a little bit less difficult with your videos :)

[@learncroatian9135]

Yes, Latin can definitely help! I'm glad the videos are helpful 😊 Keep up the great work!

[@barbaratoto8717]

I love your video. I'm italian and I'm trying to learn croatian. With your videos this is easyer, but croatian je mnogo tesko

[@wendychee4978]

Thank you! I don’t know why I haven’t found your channel before now. So good! Hvala vam puno!

[@learncroatian9135]

Nema na čemu! You're welcome! I'm so glad you find it helpful. More content to come :) Happy learning!

[@lenaz5226]

Love it , finished my A1 level , and your videos are so helpful ❤️

[@learncroatian9135]

Congratulations, Lena! And I'm so glad I can be of help! Keep at it!

[@khamale3787]

Very helpful and beautiful.

[@markocuruvija2186]

This is fantastic, thank you so much for this!

[@anthony3nug]

You're videos are so helpful and explained well!

[@learncroatian9135]

Thank you!

[@williamtarabalka4920]

Good intro on cases.

[@HistoryShell1786]

Fun fact: if you speak Croatian, you are technically already fluent in Bosnian and Serbian

[@rag.animations]

A ne ono 😎

[@loqvrr9086]

montenegrin too

[@OmPrakash-pc1ec]

and like 95% of slovenian

[@FlushedKlogs]

That's because those languages used to Sebro Croatian

[@juleslafrequence6779]

Wow it's all great now ! I was learning Hungarian before Croatian and I stopped because of the cases. Now I feel that I understood cases in both languages, thanks a lot :)

[@learncroatian9135]

Awesome! Keep up the great work!

[@idemonakavu]

hvala!

[@learncroatian9135]

Nema na čemu :)

[@bballard3426]

This is a very informative video. I am Croatian on my mother's side and am interested in learning the language.

[@learncroatian9135]

Welcome to our channel, Barbara! I hope the content will be helpful to you to learn more. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask :) Happy learning!

[@Taylor14Tnava]

I really appreciate your channel ❤️❤️❤️ My boyfriend is Croatian, and I’m going to Croatia in August to meet his parents (that don’t speak English) Croatian is hard to learn but super fun to speak ☺️

[@learncroatian9135]

That is so super awesome! Will this be the first time you will visit Croatia? Kudos for you for learning. If I can help you in some other way, let me know. I'm glad you're finding the videos helpful :)

[@Taylor14Tnava]

@@learncroatian9135 Yes it will be my first time out of the country! So I am super excited I was wondering if you could make a video talking about the differences between svoj and moj And the differences between njegova and njima

[@learncroatian9135]

​@@Taylor14Tnava I've had several people ask about svoj and moj... I will try to make that my next video. What you are asking about are the pronouns and I was thinking of tackling them next ;)

[@joaninha3484]

Ah exciting! Let us know how it goes 😊

[@dmdpalliance1805]

Thanks

[@vanessapreid7066]

Thank you for the infomative video. Where can I find a link to your website?

[@learncroatian9135]

@Vanesssa Preid, you're welcome! I'm glad you found it helful. You can find more information on learn-croatian.com We have a section on Language, Travel and Culture. Also, there are more videos on the grammatical cases and still more to come :)

[@korko1235]

It's quite easy to learn as I'm from Slovakia. We have only 6 cases (we don't have vocative), but that's not a problem because Czech has it and that language is very similar to Slovak. I think Slovak is much more complex than Croatian, mostly because we have ypsilon and we have to learn where to use it and where not. For example: lyžička (žlica) múdry človek (mudar ljudski) múdri ľudia (mudri ljudi)

[@nikicao.8238]

Vocative is the case for calling people or animals. You can do it in the nominative and thus avoid the vocative, but it's nicer in the vocative.

[@korko1235]

@@nikicao.8238 I know about that because Czech has it too and it's very similar to Slovak. It was in Slovak too in the past, but was deprecated and replaced with nominative.

[@pemasherpa8629]

❤

[@yamignacio7332]

pozdrav , bok Im actively to learn HR language, and Im actively to your channel. hvala more power.

[@learncroatian9135]

Pozdrav! Welcome to the channel! Keep up the good work with your studying and speaking.

[@yamignacio7332]

@@learncroatian9135 maybe ahh already more than 5 months I'm in your channel and constantly. I'm wondered and how to say a '" I see a cats in plural form " is it correct like this, "Vidim Macke " ?

[@learncroatian9135]

@@yamignacio7332 That's exactly right! Good job!

[@pitsmallow]

where can i find the article please!..

[@philipcavalin3672]

merci

[@netcalibur]

5:50 now you got me scared 🫣

[@polish1self]

Good content :) sub

[@HistoryShell1786]

I’m not necessarily learning Croatian. I study linguistics as a hobby. And I can’t seem to find anywhere else on the internet that shows how Croatian grammar works

[@learncroatian9135]

That's fascinating. I'm not a linguist, sadly, so I wouldn't necessarily know how to help you with what you are looking for exactly.

[@rag.animations]

If you have any questions you can ask me, I'm croatian and willing to help

[@freshersyoutube5601]

You are good teacher 🙏😊 but I wish you should speak louder in video

[@learncroatian9135]

Thank you for your compliment and your comment! I'll try to enhance the audio 😊

[@peternakic5049]

I am apart of the Croatian Diaspora and am here to refresh my broken Croatian

[@learncroatian9135]

Welcome!

[@peternakic5049]

@@learncroatian9135 Hvala puno!

[@martina1642]

That is soo sad , why your parents didn’t teaching you Croatian?? When you visiting your country Croatia, or Bosnia, and you don’t know speaking your mother language that is really sad. But it is not your fault, it’s fault from parents.

[@peternakic5049]

@@martina1642 It’s annoying but I wouldn’t blame them too harshly. I can always learn after all. Meni je svejedno

[@martina1642]

Peter Nakic Yess, I know da ti je svejedno, but I have cousin in Australia, they don’t speak Croatian, and when they coming in Croatia, they can’t speaking with us , just english, really sad. Check youtube chanel “Royal Croatian tours she is from Canada and she speak very good Croatian and they children, speak english and Croatian too. Pozdrav !

[@tomislavciganovic1244]

Свака ти част!

[@learncroatian9135]

Много ти хвала!

[@tomislavciganovic1244]

@@learncroatian9135 How did you I was speaking Serbian? And not Croatian? How did you guess. Your very smart woman. You know your languages and history I'll give you that. And ur welcome

[@learncroatian9135]

@@tomislavciganovic1244 It helps that I live in the Balkans 😉 Then it's easy to know 😁

[@tomislavciganovic1244]

@@learncroatian9135 you must then be Croatian woman then. After all ur name is learn Croatian.🇭🇷

[@tomislavciganovic1244]

@@learncroatian9135 Драго ми је да смо се упознали. Ја сам из Канаду. 🇨🇦❤️

[@akhilalibro515]

Bok! Ja sam Akil. Ja sam iz Indiji. ostao sam u gradu riječi u hrvatskoj za 7 mjesec. ja studirao sam hrvatski jezik sada ja sam u Indiji. moj apartman je bio blizu kontinental hotel. Sada nedostaje mi Hrvatska.

[@learncroatian9135]

Bok, Akil! Drago mi je da si učio hrvatski jezik!

[@antenekic4690]

Vraćaj se u Hrvatsku.

[@akhilalibro515]

@@antenekic4690 ja hoću, ali ja ne mogu se vraćati sad tražim posao i naravno da ću doći u Hrvatsku. 😂😂

[@learncroatian9135]

@@akhilalibro515 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@mirjanamatolic5823]

Super.. Tocno je Da li? I to malo ja sam... Malo bolje.. Inace kuzis...

[@ferabie]

I was listening to my wife on Zoom call. Participants were talking about students with disabilities. I could not help but notice how many ways people were referring to the word students. Studenti, studenata, studentom, etc. I was thoroughly bewildered. Mostly I don't like that my name is changed. I have been with my wife for 10 years but for half of that time have lived and worked overseas. I mostly just listen and do simple sentences and greetings. But remain quiet to avoid sounding dumb. I speak two languages on a native level and also have a passable level of a third, but never had any exposure to a Slavic language until I was almost 50. I recognise vocabulary from languages which I am familiar with that have entered Croatian. Everything else is totally new. Maybe I am too old to try.

[@learncroatian9135]

No better way to keep the mind engaged than challenging it by learning a new language. 😊 Languages in general are so fascinating... Even if you start learning Croatian to an A2 level, it would be very rewarding, I'm sure! Unfortunately, yes, Slavic languages change names and nouns through cases. That's why you heard so many different versions of students. Now, did you know that there are even different words for students? Depending on which one you use, you would be referring to either elementary or high school students, or University students...

[@naturalfun8954]

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[@dilkumarpun6828]

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[@JLizard]

1:24 The cat is called a "she". Usually you would just say the cat again or possibly refer to an animal as it. Hvala

[@learncroatian9135]

You are correct. I make these mistakes because English isn't my native language and in Croatian, a cat is feminine and we would refer to it as "she". :)

[@JLizard]

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[@danielnikolic]

Using "questions" to determine cases is completely wrong, and should not be mentioned at all. This is useful only if you're a native speaker, and know the rules but you aren't aware of them. Also, genitive should not be introduced second, because that's not one of basic cases. Basic cases are nominative and accusative, and they are easy to understand, while the genitive case is much harder to understand. The order of cases nom, gen... is a leftover from Latin grammars and more or less useless and misleading. Furthermore, there's no need to separate dative and locative at all, as they are identical for all practical purposes. Locative is not used only for location, since the preposition o "about" uses it as well. The instrumental case is also used for location (pod stolom). Furthermore, it's very important for learners that instrumental and dative/locative are identical in plural.

[@TaughneeStone]

Thank you! Very helpful.

[@danielnikolic]

@@TaughneeStone you should first learn basic uses of cases. For example, accusative means object (I'm reading A BOOK) but it's also used to tell time, with a number of prepositions indicating the goal of motion, with the preposition za to indicate purpose, with po to indicate reason, with na to describe things... I suggest you type into Google "Croatian for beginners online"

[@TaughneeStone]

@@danielnikolic Super, puno hvala! :)

[@ciarandoyle4349]

Now that I'm revising this terrific Croatian course, I think I've learnt enough to disagree with Mr Nikolić. The idea that using questions is completely wrong seems a bit extreme. Especially as the native speakers are taught "the questions" in school and, in my experience, will always refer to "the questions" to explain the cases to any foreigner who is interested. The order of the cases seems to vary from language to language and country to country. The order I learned in school for the Latin cases were Nom., Voc., Acc., Gen., Dat., Abl; the Instrumental and Locative seem to change places in Croatia and Serbia. Absolutely no big deal. Finally, as a learner, I find that the Locative and Dative are indeed different cases. I do not find helpful to treat them as if they were the same, even though their noun-forms are the same.

[@biserkasertic1208]

@@ciarandoyle4349 In the last 30 years we developed 8th case! It calls CORUPTIVE Questions:"to whom?" and "how much" 😜😜😜😜😜😜

[@akhilalibro515]

Dali znate ruski jezik?

[@learncroatian9135]

Ne, ne govorim ruski.

[@gerardk51]

Only 7 cases...!

[@learncroatian9135]

🤣 It was a bit of a joke, but yes, compared to Hungarian, only 7 🤣

[@gerardk51]

@@learncroatian9135 Mercifully I don't know any Hungarian!

[@learncroatian9135]

@@gerardk51 🤣 Nor do I!

[@learncroatian9135]

@N.N. Hahahahahhaha!

[@joecostner1246]

Can u talk any slower, we re not todlers

[@anahata2009]

Really? Because you have the manners of toddler. If it's too slow for you, speed up the video. She was speaking very clearly and just fine.