Višerječni glagoli s česticom OFF i njihovi hrvatski pandani

Multi-word verbs, often simplifyingly named ‘phrasal verbs’, are one of the parts of English language which trouble foreign students the most. Their complexity and multiformity sometimes gives translators a headache when trying to come up with a suitable counterpart. Mastering them gives someone a greater understanding of the language and vastly expands their vocabulary. This paper, based on analysis of verbs extracted from Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, shows how phrasal verbs with the particle off are translated into Croatian language and what the meanings are that the particle and its Croatian equivalent, in the form of a prefix, can denote