Here’s a rundown on Croatian numbers, days of the week, months of the year, and how to go about telling the time in Croatia.
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Croatian Numbers
Here are Croatian numbers – and their English translation – first from zero to twenty.
Beyond that, numbers form the same structure of joining two words e.g. “twenty” + “one” (= dvadeset jedan), “twenty” + “two” (= dvadeset dva) and so on for each grouping of ten up to one hundred.
| English | Croatian |
| zero | nula |
| one | jedan |
| two | dva |
| three | tri |
| four | četiri |
| five | pet |
| six | šest |
| seven | sedam |
| eight | osam |
| nine | devet |
| ten | deset |
| eleven | jedanaest |
| twelve | dvnaest |
| thirteen | trinaest |
| fourteen | četrnaest |
| fifteen | petnaest |
| sixteen | šestnaest |
| seventeen | sedamnaest |
| eighteen | osamnaest |
| nineteen | devetnaest |
| twenty | dvadeset |
| twentyone | dvadeset jedan |
| twentytwo | dvadeset dva |
| thirty | trideset |
| forty | četrdeset |
| fifty | pedeset |
| sixty | šezdeset |
| seventy | sedamdeset |
| eighty | osamdeset |
| ninety | devedeset |
| one hundred | sto |
| one thousand | tisuća |
| one million | milijun |
If you want to learn more about Croatian numbers, and also test yourself once you’ve learnt so, you can do so at the Learn Croatian Language School.
Days of the week in Croatian
| English | Croatian |
| Monday | ponedjeljak |
| Tuesday | utorak |
| Wednesday | srijeda |
| Thursday | četvrtak |
| Friday | petak |
| Saturday | subota |
| Sunday | nedjelja |
Months of the year in Croatian
| English | Croatian |
| January | siječanj |
| February | veljača |
| March | ožujak |
| April | travanj |
| May | svibanj |
| June | lipanj |
| July | srpanj |
| August | kolovoz |
| September | rujan |
| October | listopad |
| November | studeni |
| December | prosinac |
Telling the time in Croatian
| English | Croatian |
| What time is it? | Koliko je sati? |
| It is… 9 o’clock | Sada je …devet sati. |
| …half past four | …četiri i trideset |
| …a quarter past seven | …sedam i petnaest |
| …a quarter to one | …petnaest do jedan |
| …a quarter to one | …pet i dvadeset |
| noon | podne |
| midnight | ponoć |
| today | danas |
| tomorrow | sutra |
| yesterday | jučer |
| hour | sat |
| day | dan |
| week | tjedan |
| weekend | vikend |
| month | mjesec |
| year | godina |