Transportation vocabulary in Croatian covers both personal and public options. The most common words are auto (car), autobus (bus), vlak (train), avion (plane), brod (boat), and bicikl (bicycle). When travelling, you will likely encounter phrases like Autobus kreće u devet (The bus leaves at nine) or Vlak kasni dvadeset minuta (The train is twenty minutes late). Vehicles are typically masculine nouns ending in a consonant. To ask for transport information, you can say Kako doći do kolodvora? (How do I get to the station?) or U koliko sati polazi vlak? (What time does the train leave?).
Vocabulary for places and geography includes both urban and natural features. Cities, towns, and streets are grad (city), selo (village), ulica (street), and trg (square). A country is zemlja, which also means "land" or "earth." Croatia's neighbours and other commonly referenced countries are Hrvatska, Slovenija, Mađarska, Srbija, Bosna i Hercegovina, Njemačka, Austrija, Italija, Francuska, Engleska, Španjolska, and Amerika. Croatian geography highlights include the capital Zagreb, the coastal city Split, the port Rijeka, the walled Dubrovnik, the peninsula Istra (Istria), the island chain of Kornati, and the rivers and lakes such as rijeka and jezero. Natural features also include more (sea), planina (mountain), šuma (forest), plaža (beach), and otok (island).
Directions and locations use a set of prepositions and adverbs that are essential for giving and following instructions. The basic compass points are desno (right), lijevo (left), and ravno (straight), often used as commands: Skrenite desno (Turn right), Skrenite lijevo (Turn left), Idite ravno (Go straight). Helpful location words include ovdje (here), tamo (there), blizu (near), daleko (far), unutra (inside), vani (outside), gore (up), dolje (down), iznad (above), ispod (below), pored (next to), između (between), ispred (in front of), and iza (behind). To ask about a place, use Gdje je...? (Where is...?), as in Gdje je toalet? (Where is the toilet?). Useful locational phrases include na uglu (on the corner), na desnoj strani (on the right), and na lijevoj strani (on the left).