svatko / svaki / sve

Everyone Each and Everything

Level 2

Svatko normally takes a singular verb. Svaki agrees with its noun, while standalone sve can refer to everything.

How It Works

Svatko refers to each person and inflects: svakoga, svakomu. Use singular agreement in Svatko ima pitanje., even though more than one person may be involved.

Svaki accompanies a noun and agrees: svaki dan, svaka knjiga, svako dijete. It presents members individually. Sve can stand alone for everything or be an agreeing form with a noun, such as sve knjige.

Standalone everything uses singular agreement: Sve je spremno. A feminine plural noun phrase instead has plural agreement: Sve knjige su ovdje. Inspect the phrase rather than assuming every sve has the same number.

Examples (4)

  1. Svatko ima pitanje.

    Everyone has a question.

    Svatko takes singular ima.

  2. Svaka knjiga ima naslov.

    Every book has a title.

    Svaka agrees with feminine knjiga.

  3. Sve je spremno.

    Everything is ready.

    Standalone sve has neuter singular agreement.

  4. Sve knjige su ovdje.

    All the books are here.

    Sve agrees with feminine plural knjige.

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svatko / svaki / sveLevel 2Everyone Each and Everything

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Universal pronouns contrast with the unspecified referents of indefinite pronouns.

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