dobar

Dobar is a common adjective in the South Slavic languages Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian, and Montenegrin, where it means "good." It modifies nouns to express quality and can describe people, objects, or actions.

The word derives from the Proto-Slavic root *dobrъ, related to cognates across Slavic languages such as Russian dobro, Polish dobry, and Czech dobrý. The form has gender and number variation: masculine singular dobar, feminine singular dobra, neuter singular dobro; plural forms align with standard Slavic adjective inflection and vary by gender as do other adjectives.

In everyday speech, dobar is used in a wide range of expressions, from neutral descriptions like dobar čovek (a good man) and dobra ideja (a good idea) to compound phrases such as dobar posao (a good job). It also appears in greetings and time-of-day phrases in the form of dobar dan (good day), dobro jutro (good morning), and dobro veče (good evening), with the exact form depending on the language and standard usage.

Dobar functions as a basic descriptor in writing and speech and is often contrasted with loš, meaning "bad." It appears in literature, media, and everyday communication with little additional connotation beyond the sense of goodness.