The verbal forms represented in the short story, written by writer Josip Kozarac, are examined in this paper. The book was written in the transitional period of realism, which is considered as one of the literay directions and at the beginning of modernism in Croatian literature (1894). The whole research at verb forms, which are mentioned in the concrete book, is based on semantic, morphological and stylistic usage. The main structure of this research is epic prose work, modern short story, complex relations between main and secondary characters, their social and psychological complex states, and because of all these things it was researched about writer’s verbal forms and their meanings.What verbal forms the writer used to present speech, ethical, social, and psychologic analysis at the characters. It was specially examined the stylistic role of the different verbal forms, some of the ancient and archaic forms which aren’t used anymore were split into fractions. Of course, the research is focused on the linguistic discrepancies and differences as the short story was written in the second half at the nineteenth century. The data provided in this research can be used in further research considering the development at the Croatian language, especially verbal forms in the nneteenth century, and of course what kind of language was used in the nineteenth century by the writers, who were writing at that time in Slavonia, where we can hear even today the Stocavian herbivore. This research can be at great help for all those who want to examine the archaic verbal forms and it can be the motivation for research at other archaic kinds at words, because we can find a lot of them in the short story Tena (it is about nouns, adjectives, conjunctions, adverbs, which aren’t considered in this paper).