svaki dan / vikendom
Repeated Time Expressions
Svaki dan means every day. Vikendom means at weekends or on weekends in a regular schedule.
How It Works
Svaki dan is an accusative time phrase. Svaki agrees with masculine inanimate dan, whose accusative looks like its nominative. A feminine example shows the case more clearly: svaku nedjelju.
Vikendom uses an instrumental form as a regular-time expression. Similar established expressions include jutrom and subotom. Not every time noun can be put into the same form with no change in naturalness or meaning.
A repeated schedule does not by itself force one tense: Učim svaki dan. describes a present routine, while a past context can describe a former routine. Choose the verb form for the intended time.
Examples (3)
- Učim hrvatski svaki dan.
I study Croatian every day.
Svaki dan marks regular frequency.
- Vikendom odmaram.
I rest on weekends.
Vikendom is a habitual-time instrumental expression.
- Svaku nedjelju posjećujem baku.
I visit my grandmother every Sunday.
Svaku nedjelju visibly shows feminine accusative agreement.
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