No. 365 in Croatian
svibnja
"Svibnja" means "May" (the month) in English.
In a sentence
Prvi svibnja obilježava Praznik rada.
The first of May marks Labour Day.
In this sentence, 'svibnja' is used in the genitive case to indicate the date of the month of May after the ordinal number.
Cijeli svibanj je bio sunčan i topao.
The whole May was sunny and warm.
Here, 'svibanj' is used in the nominative case as the subject of the sentence, referring directly to the month of May.
Sredinom svibnja, priroda je u punom cvatu.
In mid-May, nature is in full bloom.
In this usage, 'svibnja' is in the genitive case because it follows the preposition 'sredinom,' which governs genitive.
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