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Croatian for your holiday · Chapter 3: Numbers and Shopping

Two Scoops of Ice Cream, Please

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Dvije kuglice sladoleda, molim vas means “Two scoops of ice cream, please”. From here on the “please” gets abbreviated in the images: instead of moon, limousine and vase, the limousine alone is enough.

At the same ice cream stand as always, the scoops are thick as ever: thick (dick in German) and “as every time” give you dvije. One scoop is slippery and lands on your shoes – scoop and slippery give you kuglice. There is an enormous mess and everybody laughs very loudly, because that is where the stress falls. You fetch a tin holding a Lego brick and a date: mess, laughing, tin, Lego and date give you sladoleda.

At the end you drive off with your ice cream in the limousine – your shortened molim vas.