No. 108 in Croatian

neki

"Some" or "certain."

In a sentence

Vidio sam neke zanimljive knjige u knjižnici.
I saw some interesting books in the library.
The word 'neke' means 'some' and here points to an unspecified number of interesting books.
Neki ljudi vole čitati poeziju.
Some people like to read poetry.
The word 'neki' indicates a subset of people without specifying which group.
Kupio je nekakav poklon za rođendan.
He bought some kind of gift for the birthday.
The word 'nekakav' ('neki' in a specific form) refers to an undefined type of gift.

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