Croatian Plurals

Croatian plurals follow the gender you just learned: each gender has one core ending, and the only wrinkle is that short masculine nouns like to grow a syllable first.

The Core Endings

Feminine and neuter are almost mechanical: kuća → kuće (houses), kava → kave (coffees), more → mora (seas), vino → vina (wines).

Short Nouns Grow: -ovi and -evi

Masculine nouns of one syllable usually insert -ov- (or -ev- after a soft consonant) before the plural -i:

Longer masculines take plain -i: profesor → profesori, telefon → telefoni.

Sound Shifts Before -i

The plural -i softens what it touches. Three consonants swap systematically — k → c, g → z, h → s:

Plural Agreement

Adjectives and verbs follow the noun into the plural:

One more thing to file away: after the numbers 2–4 Croatian uses a special counting form (dva grada, not dva gradovi) — that story belongs to numbers.