Croatian/Bosnian (BCS): nismo culi ovih

[frone]

May I know what does this phrase "nismo culi ovih" mean, please?

Read it as part of a letter, unfortunately I'm not sure of the context...

I would be very thankful for any help!

 

[tkekte]

I think it means "we didn't hear those/them". But I don't know Croatian.

 

[frone]

LOL.
But many thanks for your kind effort

Actually, I did some search, and found that "nismo" means "we don't" (or "we didn't", as you said? )

But I really have no idea of "culi" and "ovih"

Thanks once again!

 

[Duya]

Tkekte gave you a tentatively correct answer, but the problem is that it's a broken sentence fragment, with a wrong case used.

"Nismo čuli ove" (accusative) would be normal (we didn't hear those).
"Nismo čuli ovih" (genitive) is quite curious, and I can hardly imagine a native speaker would say something like that. I'd venture a wild guess that it might be a part of "Nismo čuli ovih dana da..." (We didn't hear these days that...)

 

[frone]

Hvala, Duya
It helps a lot!

 

[Irbis]

This genitive can be perhaps some Slovenian influence, in Slovenian accusative change to genitive if the sentence is negated. But I don't know if this is also true for some Croatian dialect near Slovenian border.