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Zamenice u Lokativu

Serbian 401 — talking about people, and the case that only ever appears with a preposition.

The locative is the one case that cannot stand alone — it never appears without a preposition in front of it. After o, meaning about, the pronouns take these forms:

NominativLokativPrimer
jameniPričali su o meni.
titebiPričali smo o tebi.
on · ononjemuone form covers masculine and neuter
onanjojPričali smo o njoj.
minamaPričala sam o nama.
vivamaPričali su o vama.
oni · one · onanjimaone form for all three plurals
sebiwhen the subject talks about itself

Two things save a lot of memorising. Njemu serves both on and ono, and njima serves all three plural genders. Serbian collapses distinctions in the plural that it keeps carefully in the singular.

The one to watch is sebi. Whenever the person being talked about is the same as the person doing the talking, Serbian switches to the reflexive: Pričao je o njemu means about somebody else, Pričao je o sebi means about himself. English uses the same word him in both and lets context decide; Serbian refuses to be vague about it.

And notice the participle changing along the way: pričao for a man, pričala for a woman, pričali for a group. That agreement is with the subject, never with the person being discussed.

1. Napravi rečenicu

Subject on the left, the person being talked about on the right. Write the whole sentence.

1. ONI + pričati + o + JA

2. ON + pričati + o + ONI

3. ONA + pričati + o + ONI

4. ON + pričati + o + ON

5. ONA + pričati + o + ONO

6. MI + pričati + o + ON

7. MI + pričati + o + MI (isti)

8. MI + pričati + o + ONA

9. ONI + pričati + o + VI

10. ONA + pričati + o + ONA (ista)

11. ONI + pričati + o + ONO

12. MI + pričati + o + TI

13. JA (m.) + pričati + o + VI

14. JA (ž.) + pričati + o + MI

15. ON + pričati + o + ON (isti)

SR (lat): Upisuje se cela rečenica. Latinicom ili ćirilicom; dijakritici su opcioni, tačka nije obavezna.

СР (ћир): Уписује се цела реченица. Латиницом или ћирилицом; дијакритици су опциони, тачка није обавезна.

EN: Type the whole sentence. Latin or Cyrillic, diacritics optional, final full stop not required.

Sledeća vežba: Zamenice u akuzativu

Sa lokativa na akuzativ — kratki oblici koji se lepe uz glagol.

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