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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6950 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes  20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 9 of 10 24 March 2007 at 2:24am | IP Logged |
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1) For many verbs, the stress in the infinitive and the "-l" particple (~ "past particple" - but many linguists frown on calling these typically Slavonic forms "past particples") is placed on the second-last syllable.
2) For these verbs, if the stress is on the second-last syllable, then the stress moves one syllable to the left in the present tense. (The verbs that can be affected by this alternating stress pattern usually belong to the classes: "nositi", "pisati", "kazivati", "davati", "gledati", "krenuti" and "kupovati") For imati, the forms are imam (there is a short rising pitch on "i" and a long "a") imaš (there is a short rising pitch on "i" and a long "a") ima (there is a short rising pitch on "i" and a long "a") imamo (there is a short rising pitch on "i" and a long "a") imate (there is a short rising pitch on "i" and a long "a") imaju (there is a short rising pitch on "i" and a long "a") However, other verbs will be different. The fact that stress is rather variable (the only thing that you know is that the stress cannot be on the last syllable) and length, stress and pitch are often unmarked only make learning the language harder. 3) Croats (and for that matter, Bosnians, Serbs and Ukrainians) do not pronounce final voiced consonants as unvoiced. If I were you, I would seriously consider buying the grammar book of Ronelle Alexander and the book of comparative Slavonic grammar by Townsend and Janda. Those books were what I checked before typing this post. Alexander's explanation of stress and accent is fairly detailed and has quite a few charts. The only dictionaries that I know which show stress and accentual patterns are the large but somewhat old Serbo-Croatian-English/English-Serbo-Croatian dictionary (2 vols.) by Morton Benson (admittedly it has a stokavsko-ekavski bent) and Langenscheidt's Croatian-German/German-Croatian Pocket Dictionary (Langenscheidt Taschenwörterbuch Kroatisch) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Marin Triglot Groupie Croatia Joined 6853 days ago 50 posts - 51 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Italian Studies: German, Russian, Persian | Message 10 of 10 31 March 2007 at 4:52pm | IP Logged |
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In 90% of the words the stress is on the 1st syllable.
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