Serbian 401 — ten places, and the one thing you can't turn up without.
After imati the noun goes into the accusative. That sounds like more work than it is, because half of these nouns don't change at all.
| Type | Nominativ | Akuzativ |
|---|---|---|
| m. inanimate | pasoš, novac | pasoš, novac — isto |
| n. | strpljenje | strpljenje — isto |
| f. on -a | rezervacija, vera, knjižica | rezervaciju, veru, knjižicu |
| f. on -ost | hrabrost, radoznalost | hrabrost, radoznalost — isto |
That highlighted row is the one that catches people. Hrabrost and radoznalost are feminine, but they end in a consonant, so they belong to a different declension entirely — the one where the accusative is identical to the nominative. Almost every abstract noun in -ost works this way: mladost, ljubaznost, radost, mudrost.
The second half of the exercise is about where you are. Serbian splits this cleanly: a place takes u or na with the locative, but a person takes kod with the genitive. You go u prodavnicu but kod lekara — literally "at the doctor's".
Whether a place takes u or na is not something you can reason out; it's fixed by usage. U hotelu, u muzeju, u crkvi — but na carini, na aerodromu, na pijaci.
1. Na carini moraš da imaš . (passport)
2. U pozorištu moraš da imaš . (patience)
3. U hotelu moraš da imaš . (booking)
4. Kod zubara moraš da imaš . (courage)
5. U prodavnici moraš da imaš . (money)
6. U crkvi moraš da imaš . (faith)
7. Na aerodromu moraš da imaš . (ticket and passport)
8. Na pijaci moraš da imaš . (money)
9. U muzeju moraš da imaš . (curiosity)
10. Kod lekara moraš da imaš zdravstvenu . (booklet)
Type the preposition together with the noun in the right case.
1. carina →
2. pozorište →
3. hotel →
4. zubar →
5. prodavnica →
6. crkva →
7. aerodrom →
8. pijaca →
9. muzej →
10. lekar →
SR (lat): U drugom bloku upiši i predlog i imenicu. Može latinicom ili ćirilicom; dijakritici su opcioni.
СР (ћир): У другом блоку упиши и предлог и именицу. Може латиницом или ћирилицом; дијакритици су опциони.
EN: In the second block type the preposition together with the noun. Latin or Cyrillic, diacritics optional.
Igra, pa upotreba
Ista gramatika, drugo raspoloženje — Tense Run: MORATI.
Forbidden or simply optional? English blurs the two; Serbian doesn't.
Ne Smeju ili Ne Moraju →