Serbian 601 — five people say what moves them, and every answer needs a noun in the right case.
Five people on the street, one question: can you make somebody do something they don’t want to do? The answers are short, which is what makes them hard — the whole meaning sits in one abstract noun, and every one of them is governed by a preposition.
| Preposition | Case it takes | In this exercise |
|---|---|---|
| zbog | genitiv | zbog ljubavi, zbog interesa |
| iz | genitiv | iz manipulacije, iz interesa |
| uz | akuzativ | uz upornost, uz objašnjenje |
| pomoću | genitiv | pomoću dobre motivacije |
Note the feminine nouns ending in a consonant: ljubav, upornost, ubedljivost. In the genitive they take -i — zbog ljubavi — while in the accusative they don’t change at all: uz upornost. Two cases, two behaviours, one group of words, and it is the group learners most often force into the žena pattern by mistake.
Listen once without stopping, then once more with your finger on pause. The second pass is where the case endings actually become audible.
Slušanje i padeži
Listen first for the gist, then again for the exact noun in the exact case.
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