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How to say in English faliti, nedostajati in the sense that:

He was 3 votes short to win the election.

He was three votes short of winning the election.

This sounds much better, my bad.

What's the way to say in English the next phrases:

How would you say the following phrases in English:

1.) requested to ask a question

2.) give someone a say, give him a say, allow them to speak it'd.

Thank you shodan.

Evo da ozivim malo temu s diskusijom barem jedne pojedinacne rijeci (bolje ista nego nista ), jedna rijec koju nikad nisam koristio:

hurdle

Po svemu sudeci, hurdle je ona precka/prepona u trcanju u atletici, a koristi se i za opis necega sto nam otezava dolazak do cilja, recimo tezi dio gradiva pri ucenju.

Sinonimi su: obstacle, difficulty, problem, barrier, bar, snag, stumbling block, impediment, obstruction, complication

You've passed your first hurdle. By remarking you've never used the word hurdle, you've now used it.

Hurdle is used in horseback riding too. The meaning is similar, an obstacle over which a particular horse jumps. We'd say prepona also.
But as a discipline of horseback riding or "preponsko jahanje" it is called show jumping.

Horseback riding has a posh tech term too. That's equestrianism. Or, in Croatian, konjički sport.
Originally from latin equus. Talking about hard words.

P.S. You are learning Spanish, so I'll say that it too has a similiar word in the same meaning.

Too advanced for my baby Spanish.

Perhaps. But I'm counting on you to catch up things pretty quickly...
Sorry, showing off a bit, but I've always found these words connections interesting.

Easter vocab

Easter (Sunday) Uskrs
Palm Sunday Cvjetnica
Ash Wednesday Pepelnica
Lent korizma

Holy Thursday Veliki četvrtak
Good Friday (Black Friday) Veliki petak (beats me if I know why)
Holy Saturday Velika subota


Happy Easter everybody

This is useful. Palm Sunday and Ash Wednesday are quite new words for me. I already knew the other words.

This previous sentence raised a question - is there any difference between words quite and pretty as adverbs?

You Croatia but you English very nice. Strong.

Beautiful....beautiful English. Make Agram strong again.

Ok. You Tarzan, me Cheetah
P.S. Why Good Friday be called those, I wonder?
Tomahawk.

Ahuh. Nope.
Agram be strong never. Soft power more our thing.
But Snowflake convince Ministry to like it, sooner or later

In style only. you shouldn't use pretty in formal or high style.

PS. Addition to the list:
Easter Monday Uskrsni ponedjeljak
to fast/fast postiti, post

I think labeling this level of English proficiency as Tarzan-like is quite insulting to just about every Croat who arrived in Australia/Canada 40-50 years ago, as what I displayed is identical (or superior) to their actual mastery of the English language.

What's so remarkable about a generic central/eastern European town? A cheap knock off of Vienna, Prague, Budapest, St Petersburg. In line with Ljubljana, Bratislava, Sofia, Bucharest.

The coast is where it's at - it's a travesty to even mention Zagreb in the same breath as Split, Dubrovnik etc.

Don't mean to be disrespectful, just my 2c worth.

Geez, Mr Serious, it was a joke, a pun, a word game...
I don't think I'm better or smarter than our parents' or grandparents' generations if I'm more proficient or skillful in the language.
It's just that we live in the global age where English serves as lingua franca, and there are simply more opportunities to learn it. Every tv series is in English, every song on the radio, English is a part of our world in a way it wasn't a generation ago. Especially behind the Iron curtain.
Loosen up a bit. I'm not making fun of anybody.

Everything about Zagreb is special. It's my home, a place drenched in memories, the only place I know all about, the only place I would ever know all about.
If you grade every place where you go like that, you will get yourself rip off of a real, authentic experience.
In every place there is something beautiful to see.
If you go only to so called A- class places, than you'll just see what everybody else is seeing, and, in my opinion, your image of the world will be too generic.
The same will happen if you travel through tourist agency, you become a small wheel in the tourist industry and your experience is exactly the same as those zillions of people went through before you.
The stories you tell and the view you take are so generic to me, no offence.
I love culture, arts and literature, but in the time of globalization there is a little left of authenticity in general.
And you'll find it best if you get off touristy routes.
Lastly, Zagreb is more beautiful than Vienna and it has me, what else can you ask for?

There is a certain quote from Charlotte Bronte, from Wuthering Heights.
I''ll paraphrase in Croatian.

Volim ga jer je lijep, zgodan, inteligentan i privlačan.
Pa postoji i ljepši i inteligentniji i mlađi od njega. Zašto ne voliš njih?

Go luck in your quest for authenticity and beauty, best of luck indeed
And make sure to grade everything correctly

There is beauty in all, there is absolute beauty in nothing and there is no authenticity unless you find it for yourself.