Adverbs of place in Croatian
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Sign up for freeAdverbs of place describe where something took place. In Croatian language adverbs of place answer to questions; gdje? kamo? kuda? odakle? dokle? otkuda? dokud?.
In English all of these question versions are translated with "where?".
In the following table there is a list of adverbs with the sentence example.
Croatian adverb | Example | English translation |
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ovdje | Ovdje živi moja baka. | Here lives my grandma. |
ondje | Ondje smo se igrali. | We were playing over there. |
tamo | Tamo se nalazi kuća. | The house is there. |
tu | Tu je lijepše. | Here is better. |
daleko | Daleko je od nas. | It is far from us. |
sprijeda | Sprijeda ima više mjesta. | There is a more place in front. |
svagdje | Svagdje sam bila. | I was everywhere. |
nizbrdo | Nizbrdo je brži put. | It is better to go down there. |
gore | Knjiga je gore na stolu. | The book is above the table. |
dolje | Smjesti je dolje pokraj stola. | Put it down there, next to the table. |
mjestimice | Mjestimice će kišiti. | It will rain only somewhere. |
Adverbs are necessary to learn by heart!