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Published: 22 June 2015 This post is aimed at complete beginners to the Croatian language. Here we introduce the concepts of cases, articles and noun genders and talk about the role each plays in Croatian.

If you're interested in finding out more about any of the topics listed below, you'll find links to detailed blog articles at the end of each section.


What are they, and how many are there in Croatian?

A case is a grammatical category which refers to the different forms certain words take depending on their function in the sentence.

In Croatian, nouns, adjectives, pronouns and numbers are always declined, which means that they change slightly depending on the case that they're in.

The Croatian language has seven different cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, locative and instrumental.

Read more about the cases in Croatian


What are they, and why are they missing in Croatian?

Read more about articles in Croatian here

Noun gender

What is it, and how does it work in Croatian?

Gender is a specific form of noun-class system. Simply put, it means that every noun in Croatian is either masculine, feminine or neuter.

It's easy to do it for nouns that denote living things – if a person or an animal is male, its grammatical gender will be masculine, and for living things that are female, the grammatical gender will be feminine.

What makes it slightly more complicated is that the names of inanimate objects also have a gender, which is not determined by any of the characteristics of the object.

Read more about noun gender in Croatian

