No. 134 in Croatian
imali
"Imali" in Croatian means "had" (past tense of "have").
In a sentence
Da smo barem imali više vremena, mogli bismo završiti projekt.
If only we had had more time, we could have completed the project.
In this sentence, 'imali' is used as the past participle of the verb 'imati' (to have) in the past conditional mood, indicating an unrealized condition.
Tijekom vikenda, roditelji su imali goste.
During the weekend, the parents had guests.
Here, 'imali' is used as the past plural form of 'imati' (to have) in the indicative mood, describing a past event.
Zamislite kako bi izgledalo da ste imali pristup svim tim podacima.
Imagine what it would have been like if you had had access to all that data.
In this example, 'imali' is again the past participle of 'imati' (to have), but it's used in a hypothetical past scenario.
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