No. 956 in Croatian

vikend

Weekend.

In a sentence

Prošli vikend smo posjetili Plitvička jezera.
Last weekend we visited the Plitvice Lakes.
In this sentence, 'vikend' refers to a specific, recent weekend, showing its use to denote time.
Obično se vikendom odmaram kod kuće.
I usually relax at home on weekends.
Here, 'vikendom' is used in the instrumental plural form to mean 'on weekends' in a habitual sense.
Vesele se nadolazećem vikendu jer planiraju izlet.
They are looking forward to the upcoming weekend because they are planning a trip.
In this case, 'vikendu' is in the dative case, referring to a specific future weekend as the recipient of anticipation.

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