What does “tisuća” mean in Croatian?

Tisuća is “thousand” in Croatian, and it’s one of the quickest ways to tell Croatian from Serbian, where the everyday word is hiljada. Both are understood everywhere, but each side has its favourite. It changes form like a feminine noun: jedna tisuća, dvije tisuće, pet tisuća, and when you say a year it starts with tisuću.

Asked below which birth year people count as old, one passer-by answers «Tisuću devetsto devedeset peto»: 1995. Another settles for «Prošlo stoljeće», “last century”, where Serbian would say prošli vek. Years from 2000 on switch to dvije tisuće..., so you’ll hear both forms in any conversation about ages.