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Introduction

01 Alphabet and Pronunciation

02 Simplest Sentences

03 Objects

04 No, Often, Probably and Again

05 Accusative Case

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Ви з України? Хорватська для вас.

Introduction

01 Alphabet and Pronunciation

02 Simplest Sentences

03 Objects

04 No, Often, Probably and Again

05 Accusative Case

06 Destinations

07 Verbs with Obligatory Objects

08 Weather and General Statements

09 Numbers and Time

10 Gender

11 Colors, More Adjectives and Adverbs

12 Simple Conversations

13 She Loves Me: Pronouns and Properties

14 My and Adjectives in Accusative

15 Locations

16 Giving to Someone, Going to Someone

17 In Cold Scotland: Adjectives in Dative/Locative

18 This and That

19 Your, Ana’s: Possessives

20 At My Friend’s: Genitive

21 Origins

22 Here I am: More Pronouns

23 I’m Cold: Basic Impressions

24 Past Tense

25 Plural

26 Yes or No?

27 Body

28 Asking Who and What

29 Plural of Masculine Nouns and Adjectives

30 Three Beers: Less than 5 Things

Variations: Colloquial and Formal

31 First, Second: Ordinals and Months

32 Love and Like

33 School Yard and Bunk Bed: Relations

34 Stressed Pronouns

35 Tools and Means, With and Without

36 Dative/Locative and Instrumental Plural

37 Complete Reading: Perfective Verbs

38 Needs, Wishes and Intentions

39 Would, Could: Conditionals

40 Future Tense

41 Somewhere, Nobody, Something...

42 Come In, Come Out, Go

43 And, Or, But: Basic Conjunctions

44 Genitive Plural

45 Quantities and Existence

Variations: Regional

46 More than Four Things

47 For 7 Hours: Time Periods

48 Everybody, Each and Everything Else

49 Of Flowers, Thorns and Counting Children

50 Because, In Order To, Why: Reasons

51 Approximate Periods, Repetions and References

52 Stand, Become, Exist, Cease

53 When, While, Until, Before, After

54 Giving Orders

55 More Prepositions

56 Desires and Demands

57 Knowing and Telling: Content and Noun Clauses

58 Wholes, Parts, Heaps and Pairs

59 Whose, What Thing and What Like

60 Put, Give, Take, Get: More Verbs

61 The Friend I Saw: Relative Clauses

62 Cake is Eaten: Passive Adjectives

Variations: Ikavian (dite vs dijete)

63 Bigger and Better: Comparatives

64 Something is Heard: Fun with se²

65 Carry, Bring, Drive: Transport Verbs

66 Smoking is Dangerous: Verbal Nouns

67 Only, Except, Too: Inclusion and Exclusion

68 Sneeze Once and Start Blooming

69 Memories, Expectations and Fear

70 If I Were: Conditional Sentences

Text: an excerpt from Within Reach [u/c]

71 Suggestions, Permissions and More Verbs

72 Addressing: Vocative Case

73 Teach, Borrow, Succeed: Two-Sided Verbs

74 Things Break: It Just Happened to Me

75 Friends and Family

76 Inner, Outer, Step by Step: More on Space and Time

77 As If: Advanced Clauses

78 One Another, Own: Reciprocals and Reflexives

79 You’re Wrong and Other Phrases

80 Flying Bugs: Present Adverbs and Adjectives

81 Three Men: Group Numbers and Numeric Compounds

82 Visible and Unreadable: Potential Adjectives

Variations: Younger Speakers and Slang

83 Depth and Distance: Abstract Nouns

84 Make It in Time, Get Things Done: More Verbs

85 Small and Cute: Diminutives

86 More Verbs and Standing Outcomes

87 Player, Playroom and Playground: Common Derivations

88 Weird Words and Constructions

89 However, Therefore: Discourse Markers and Similar Words

90 More Number-like Words

91 Taboo Words and Expressions

92 Customs and Traditions

Variations: Traditional Dialects #1

Variations: Traditional Dialects #2

93 Learn to Crawl: Verbs, Verbs... All Perfective

94 Common Phrases

95 HRT, SMS: Acronyms

99 Aorist Tense and Other Marginal Features

A1 Nouns and Adjectives

A2 Words standing for other words

A3 Verbs

A4 Cases and Prepositions

A5 Word Order

A7 Stress (u/c)

Core Dictionary

A • B • C • Č • Ć • D • DŽ • Đ • E • F • G • H • I • J • K • L • LJ • M • N • NJ • O • P • R • S • Š • T • U • V • Z • Ž • About

Essential Verbs

A-G • H-M • N-O • P • R-Š • T-Ž • About

Reference & Appendix

Symbols & Abbreviations

• Nouns and Adjectives
• Words Standing for Other Words
• Verbs
• Word Order
• Bosnian, Serbian & Montenegrin

• Common Names
• Countries & Nationalities
• Cities & Towns

Test Your Knowledge

Nouns 1 • Verbs 1 • Adjectives 1
Gender 1 • Cases 1 • Cases 2
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• PDF (A5, no annotations)
• PDF (A5, with case annotations)
• AZW3 file (Amazon Kindle)
• ENG/GER/CRO Cheat Sheet
• NEW: 250 Essential Verbs

The AZW3 file works nicely on Kindles 4th and 7th generation, it's not tested on other models.

↓ Translations (click to show)

Detour: Daleko
Mia: Život nije siv
Merita's & Massimo: Odjednom ti
Natali Dizdar: Mjesecu je dosadno
Yammat: Putujem
Yammat: Tvoje lice se promijenilo

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Notes

Feel free to use this work in any way, but please acknowledge the source if you republish it elsewhere.

I'm not a professional language teacher, and I would be grateful if anyone points out any errors or ways to improve this small 'course'.

If anyone is interested, we can translate this to other languages (e.g. German, Spanish, etc.)

Special gratitude goes to some people.

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  • adverbs of probability
  • adverbs of time
  • alphabet
  • body parts
  • case-base
  • clauses
  • collective nouns
  • colors
  • conditional
  • conjunctions
  • dative/locative case
  • demonstratives
  • derived words
  • destinations
  • existence
  • family terms
  • future tense
  • gender
  • genitive case
  • greetings
  • imperative
  • impersonal expressions
  • infinitive
  • instrumental case
  • language variations
  • locations
  • negation
  • nominative case
  • nouns
  • numbers
  • opinions and suggestions
  • origins
  • particle se²
  • passive
  • past form
  • past tense
  • perfective verbs
  • phase verbs
  • plural
  • polite expressions
  • possession
  • predicatives
  • prepositions
  • present tense
  • pronouns
  • pronunciation
  • quantities
  • questions
  • regional variations
  • repetition
  • replacement biti → bude
  • short responses
  • stress
  • stressed forms
  • time
  • verb families
  • verb forms
  • vocative case
  • vowel length
  • word order

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