These are the 100 most useful Croatian words from our 1000-word beginner course - the vocabulary you will hear and use most often. Learn them first and you will understand a surprising amount of everyday Croatian.
| # | Word | Croatian |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | the apple | jabuka |
| 2 | the book | knjiga |
| 3 | the cat | mačka |
| 4 | the dog | pas |
| 5 | the car | auto |
| 6 | the house | kuća |
| 7 | the chair | stolica |
| 8 | the table | stol |
| 9 | the window | prozor |
| 10 | the door | vrata |
| 11 | the pencil | olovka |
| 12 | the paper | papir |
| 13 | the school | škola |
| 14 | the teacher | učitelj |
| 15 | the student | učenik |
| 16 | the boy | dječak |
| 17 | the girl | djevojčica |
| 18 | the adult | odrasla osoba |
| 19 | the friend | prijatelj |
| 20 | the tree | drvo |
| 21 | the flower | cvijet |
| 22 | the river | rijeka |
| 23 | the mountain | planina |
| 24 | the beach | plaža |
| 25 | the sun | sunce |
| 26 | the moon | mjesec |
| 27 | the star | zvijezda |
| 28 | the cloud | oblak |
| 29 | the rain | kiša |
| 30 | the snow | snijeg |
| 31 | the wind | vjetar |
| 32 | the fire | vatra |
| 33 | the water | voda |
| 34 | the food | hrana |
| 35 | the drink | piće |
| 36 | the cup | šalica |
| 37 | the bottle | boca |
| 38 | the plate | tanjur |
| 39 | the spoon | žlica |
| 40 | the fork | vilica |
| 41 | the knife | nož |
| 42 | the breakfast | doručak |
| 43 | the lunch | ručak |
| 44 | the dinner | večera |
| 45 | the fruit | voće |
| 46 | the vegetable | povrće |
| 47 | the bread | kruh |
| 48 | the butter | maslac |
| 49 | the cheese | sir |
| 50 | the milk | mlijeko |
| 51 | the coffee | kava |
| 52 | the tea | čaj |
| 53 | the juice | sok |
| 54 | the soda | gazirani sok |
| 55 | the chocolate | čokolada |
| 56 | the candy | bombon |
| 57 | the cookie | keks |
| 58 | the cake | kolač |
| 59 | the rice | riža |
| 60 | the pasta | tjestenina |
| 61 | the fish | riba |
| 62 | the chicken | piletina |
| 63 | the beef | govedina |
| 64 | the egg | jaje |
| 65 | the soup | juha |
| 66 | the salad | salata |
| 67 | the sandwich | sendvič |
| 68 | the pizza | pizza |
| 69 | the ice cream | sladoled |
| 70 | the cereal | žitarice |
| 71 | the honey | med |
| 72 | the sugar | šećer |
| 73 | the salt | sol |
| 74 | the pepper | papar |
| 75 | the tomato | rajčica |
| 76 | the potato | krumpir |
| 77 | the onion | luk |
| 78 | the carrot | mrkva |
| 79 | the lettuce | zelena salata |
| 80 | the cucumber | krastavac |
| 81 | the banana | banana |
| 82 | the orange | naranča |
| 83 | the grapefruit | grejp |
| 84 | the strawberry | jagoda |
| 85 | the grape | grožđe |
| 86 | the lemon | limun |
| 87 | the lime | limeta |
| 88 | the cherry | trešnja |
| 89 | the watermelon | lubenica |
| 90 | the pineapple | ananas |
| 91 | the mango | mango |
| 92 | the kiwi | kivi |
| 93 | the peach | breskva |
| 94 | the pear | kruška |
| 95 | the plum | šljiva |
| 96 | the berry | bobica |
| 97 | the melon | dinja |
| 98 | the phone | telefon |
| 99 | the computer | računalo |
| 100 | the television | televizija |
The 100 most frequent words cover about half of everyday spoken language. With the full 1000-word core vocabulary you understand around 85% of typical conversations in Croatian - enough to follow along and make yourself understood.
They are the most frequently used words of the language, selected by word frequency. Every one of them will appear again and again in real sentences, so each learned word immediately pays off.
Listen and repeat: every word in the 1000 Words course comes with native-speaker audio and an example sentence. Combined with spaced repetition in the free vocabulary trainer, most learners master the first 100 words within one to two weeks.