The number system in Croatian is mostly straightforward, with the small numbers illustrating gender agreement: nula (zero), jedan (one), dva (two), tri (three), četiri (four), pet (five), šest (six), sedam (seven), osam (eight), devet (nine), and deset (ten). From these, teens and tens follow recognizably: jedanaest (eleven), dvanaest (twelve), trinaest (thirteen), dvadeset (twenty), trideset (thirty), pedeset (fifty), along with sto (hundred), tisuću (thousand), and milijun (million). Ordinals follow a different pattern, with prvi (first), drugi (second), treći (third), and zadnji (last), and the superlative prefix naj- building forms like najbolji.
Sample numerical phrases cover everyday transactions: Koliko košta? (How much does it cost?), Deset eura, molim. (Ten euros, please.), Imam četiri jabuke. (I have four apples.), and Pedeset godina iskustva. (Fifty years of experience.). Numbers are also closely tied to time and dates, so phrases such as Šest sati ujutro. (Six in the morning.) and Dvanaest mjeseci. (Twelve months.) quickly become familiar. Tallies and shopping language also rely on numbers, where the gender agreement of dva and tri with nouns becomes important (e.g., Dva sata for two hours vs. Tri sata for three hours).
Country names in Croatian mostly take the feminine ending -ska for European nations with adjective-style names: Hrvatska (Croatia), Njemačka (Germany), Francuska (France), Engleska (England), Španjolska (Spain), Austrija (Austria), Slovenija (Slovenia), Mađarska (Hungary), Srbija (Serbia), Italija (Italy), and the longer Bosna i Hercegovina (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Outside Europe, Amerika (America) keeps a familiar form. Sentences like Iz Engleske sam (I'm from England), Slovenija je sjeverni susjed (Slovenia is the northern neighbour), and Zagreb je glavni grad Hrvatske (Zagreb is the capital of Croatia) combine country names with basic sentence patterns and the prepositions iz (from) and u (in).