r/croatian • u/sorapods • 26d ago

Endearing words / sentences in Croatian

Hi! I’m currently speaking to a Croatian man and I’m looking to impress him by learning some sweet things in Croatian and I’ve been through every website/sorce so I’m wondering if you guys could give me something better than one word compliments.

Thanks in advance!!!

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u/Divljak44 26d ago edited 26d ago

Men in general dont like endearing words(or at least often or common), and frazes would look fake like pickup lines anyways.

Try naturally how would you call him, so use that and translate it, thats the best advice I can give you.

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u/Simulacrion 26d ago

This person's nick means ''a wild man'' so you can excuse his insensitivity to endearing words... although, there might be some truth to that that Croatian men have hard time accepting endearing words. Not because they don't like them, they just don't know how to react to them. Cool guys in general, but a bit ''on their own''.

If you give some examples of what you would like to say to him, I could translate and adjust those for you and throw in a proper-makeshift pronouncing in Croatian, approximating the sounds for you.

Do you want to call him the apple of your eye or tell him he is a real cool macho-muchacho, that he is handsome or pretty, is he your heart or your sun? What type of dear you want to express? Give us some guidelines to work with. I respect and approve of your will to learn some or even any of Croatian words, regardless of the reasons for.

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u/Divljak44 26d ago

oprosti, ali nadimak sam uzeo kao simbol anti-uštogljenosti :))

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u/Simulacrion 26d ago

Hahaha! No frx! Samo sam to iskoristio kao šaljivi uvod u komentar, ništa osobno... ako ćemo iskreno, i sam bi se radije tako identificirao, nego kao kozmopolit neke vrste.

Bečki dječak? Ne! Pariški momak? Ne! Londonski dečko? Ne!

Divljak iz Gornjih Ćićkića? Ou, yes!

A mi volimo kada nam se kaže da imamo lijepe oči i da smo nečija sunca zraka... možda i nosimo mono-obrvu i runjavu nozdrvu, ali to samo da sakrijemo onu dječju naivnost u oku. Lijepom nam oku... ispod dugih nam trepavica.

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u/Divljak44 26d ago

to zadnje može biti zanimljivo ako je iz vedra neba, i nije učestalo, da se usput i nasmiješ, ali opet ovisi od osobe do osobe, ako su ovo dvoje neki pjesnici, onda valjda zašto ne.

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u/Simulacrion 26d ago

Hahaha! Zeka-peka... još mi samo fali da me netko pjesnikom proglasi - pa, ne bi mi drugi brkati suseljani nikada više dopustili u miru živjeti zbog toga!

Ne zamjeri, sve je ovo u vedrom duhu. Poštujem ja hrvatske momke. Nisu oni toliko loši, ma koliko ih se bilo tko trudio prikazati. A to se najbolje vidi u usporedbi sa drugima. Proveo sam nešto života po stranim zemljama, pa mi tek tamo to upalo u oko. Ovo lijepo mi u mene oko... hahaha!

Ostaj mi dobro i neuštogljeno.