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| Evanitious Triglot Newbie France Joined 4314 days ago 36 posts - 39 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC1, Italian | Message 1 of 2 01 February 2016 at 2:11pm | IP Logged |
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Hi there !
There are two things I don't understand with the cases in Serbian - Croatian. 1) Why do some firstnames remain the same with the vocative form ? I was talking to a girl named "Julija", and I asked her if I should call her "Julijo" but she said "no". But "Branka" => "Branko" and "Milica" => "Milice" Same thing for men : "Igor" => "Igore" but, Aleksa => Aleksa 2) Why do sometimes the last letter is not removed ? If I want to say : I'm talking to Julija => Govorim Juliji I'm talking with Julija => Govorim s(a) Julijom But I was watching the anime Naruto, and there is a character named "Sasuke". And they don't remove the last letter. For example, "with Sasuke" = "Sa Sasukeom", but I would have said "sa Sasukom". I see Sasuke => Sasukea (and I would have said Sasuka) Is it because it's a foreign name ? Thanks a lot for your help. Edited by Evanitious on 01 February 2016 at 8:21pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Evanitious Triglot Newbie France Joined 4314 days ago 36 posts - 39 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC1, Italian | Message 2 of 2 01 March 2016 at 1:42pm | IP Logged |
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For those interested, I've found out the answer for my first question. It seems that we
only change when the name has two syllables. Maja => Majo Ana => Ano Iva => Ivo Danijela => Danijela Marija => Marija Unless it ends by -ica Milica => Milice At least, that's the explanation I've found. As for my second question, I still don't know. My only guess is that it's a foreign name. If someone could just helped me with these examples : I saw Enrique => Vidio sam Enriquea ? But what if the name ends by an -a already ? I saw Andrea Bocelli => " Vidio sam Andreaa (Andrea ?) Bocellia"? I saw Barack Obama => Vidio sam Baracka Obamaa ? or Obama ? Also, it seems we don't decline a female foreign name ? I saw Jenifer Aniston => vidio sam Jenifer Aniston. Thanks for any help. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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