This paper tried to give an overview of a series of definitions of the subject as a very important concept in the syntax of the Croatian language. After the necessary review of the predicate, attention was directed to the subject in the predicate extension, which Babić concludes are stylistically marked. The focus is placed on the very concept of the subject in the oblique case and now it is compared with the subject in the nominative case and their similarities and differences are sought. It is concluded that such dative subjects do not have the case coding of a typical subject and that they do not determine wording, and that nominative subjects have a greater degree of control. However, most authors agree that the subject in oblique cases encodes the semantic function of the experiencer. It is concluded that the dative is limited to the predicates of experiencing and that it does not have any typical property of the subject in the nominative.