Croatian Numbers & Counting

Numbers open the market, the konoba, and the ferry timetable. Croatian numbers are regular — the only genuinely new idea is that what you count changes form after certain numbers.

One to Ten

Jedan agrees like an adjective (jedan grad, jedna kuća, jedno selo); dva has a feminine twin, dvije (dva grada but dvije kuće) — ijekavian where Serbian says dve.

Teens and Tens

Teens add -naest; tens mostly add -deset:

Composites just stack: dvadeset jedan (21), trideset pet (35), devedeset devet (99).

The 2-3-4 Rule

Here's the Slavic specialty. What you count changes with the number:

Masculine: jedan grad, dva grada, pet gradova. The same rhythm — one / a few / many — runs through every Slavic language you'll ever study.

Saying Your Age

Age uses imati (to have) plus godina in the right counting form:

Same 1 / 2–4 / 5+ pattern: godinu / godine / godina.

Prices and Shopping

Croatia counts in euri (euros) since 2023:

Notice eura after pet — the genitive plural again. Numbers and cases are old friends in Croatian; once you hear the pattern at the tržnica a few times, it locks in for good.