Croatian Adverbs
Learning the Croatian Adverbs is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you practice the subject, the closer you get to mastering the Croatian language. But first we need to know what the role of Adverbs is in the structure of the grammar in Croatian.
Croatian adverbs are part of speech. Generally they're words that modify any part of language other than a noun. Adverbs can modify verbs, adjectives (including numbers), clauses, sentences and other adverbs. Here are some examples:
| English Adverbs | Croatian Adverbs |
| adverbs | prilozi |
| I read a book sometimes | Ponakad čitam knjigu |
| I will never smoke | Nikada neću pušiti |
| are you alone? | Jesi li sam? |
As you can see from the example above, the structure of the Adverbs in Croatian has a logical pattern. Locate the Adverbs above and see how it works with the rest of the sentence in Croatian.
List of Adverbs in Croatian
Below is a list of the Adverbs of time place manner and frequency in Croatian placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Croatian vocabulary.
| English Adverbs | Croatian Adverbs |
| adverbs of time | vremenski prilozi |
| yesterday | jučer |
| today | danas |
| tomorrow | sutra |
| now | sada |
| then | tada |
| later | kasnije |
| tonight | večeras |
| right now | odmah |
| last night | sinoć |
| this morning | jutros |
| next week | sljedeći tjedan |
| already | već |
| recently | nedavno |
| lately | u zadnje vrijeme |
| soon | uskoro |
| immediately | odmah |
| still | još uvijek |
| yet | još |
| ago | prije |
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| adverbs of place | mjesni prilozi |
| here | ovdje |
| there | tamo |
| over there | tamo |
| everywhere | svuda |
| anywhere | bilo gdje |
| nowhere | nigdje |
| home | kući |
| away | daleko |
| out | van |
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| adverbs of manner | načinski prilozi |
| very | vrlo |
| quite | sasvim |
| pretty | prilično |
| really | stvarno |
| fast | brzo |
| well | dobro |
| hard | puno |
| quickly | brzo |
| slowly | polako |
| carefully | pažljivo |
| hardly | teško |
| barely | jedva |
| mostly | uglavnom |
| almost | skoro |
| absolutely | apsolutno |
| together | zajedno |
| alone | sam |
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| adverbs of frequency | prilozi učestalosti |
| always | uvijek |
| frequently | često |
| usually | obično |
| sometimes | ponekad |
| occasionally | povremeno |
| seldom | rijetko |
| rarely | rijetko |
| never | nikad |
Adverbs of time place manner and frequency have a very important role in Croatian, therefore they need very special attention. Once you're done with Croatian Adverbs, you might want to check the rest of our Croatian lessons here: Learn Croatian. Don't forget to bookmark this page.