008 Sve si to ti kriv!

Croatian sayings and expressions #008

Sve si to ti kriv

It’s all YOUR fault!

​You are probably aware that we might say Ja sam kriv, or in the case of a woman, Ja sam kriva.
“It’s my fault” or “I am to blame.”
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Or, putting the blame to somebody else: “Ti si kriv(a).”
 

But there is a more aggressive form of accusation that needs an exclamation mark:
Sve si to ti kriv!  [It’s all your (bloody) fault!]
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This doesn’t work without the emphasis on ti.
 

Of course, Sve si to ti kriv!  doesn’t work without finger-wagging.
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In Croatia, it used to be more common to hear: Sve si to ti kriva!  Just sayin’ ……
But that doesn’t happen any longer, of course.
 
This exclamation might be a little hard to make sense of grammatically.

​So far as I can make out, it is a colloquial and aggressive form of Ti si kriv za sve to!  [You are to blame for all of that!] Make sense?

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