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the same word—can vary in different parts of the country. This is because modern Croatian
hasthreedistinctdialects,calledKajkavian,Shtokavian,andChakavian—basedonhowyou
say “what?” (
kaj?, što?,
and
č
a?,
respectively). That's a lot of variety for a language with
only five million speakers.
AttentivetravelerswillfrequentlyheartwoCroatianphrasesthatareusedasenthusiastic
affirmatives, like “sure” or “OK”:
može
(MOH-zheh; can do) and
ajde
(EYE-deh; let's go).
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