Croatian Tongue-Twisters

• Cetristo četrdeset četiri čavke čuče na čamcu.
  444 jackdaws sit on a boat

• Hrvoje sa Hvara hrani hrčka.
  Hrvoje from Hvar island is feeding a hamster.

• Pile pikće dok do kuće ne dopikće.
  Chicken clucks until to the house it clucks.

• Riba ribi grize rep.
  One fish bites another fishes tail.

• Na vrh brda vrba mrda.
  On top of the hill a willow swings.

• Petar Petru pleo petlju pokraj puta po sto puta.
  Petar made a loop for Peter by the road, hundreds of times.

• Sjedi stari Zlokotlokrp i stara Zlokotlokrpa i njihovih dvoje troje zlokotlokrpčadi.
  There sits an old cauldron-mender and his old cauldron-mendending wife and their two or three cauldron-mending children.

• Cvrči cvrči cvrčak na čvoru crne smrče.
  Chirping chirping cricket on the knot of a black spruce.

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