Greetings from Genitive - Part 2

If you really had fun learning Genitive yesterday, I'm sure you'll have a blast  today:

As you can see, there's a bunch of characters speaking to you in Serbian (written both in the Cyrillic and Latin alphabet :) Because they are talking about where they are right now, they are using (guess what?) the Genitive case. Now, I have a few tasks for you. Let's find out:

A. Who is saying what? = Ko šta kaže?

1. Sunce kaže: 
2. Majmun kaže:
3. Ptica kaže:
4. Dečko kaže:

B. Where are = Gde su...

1. dečko (a boy)
2. devojčica (a girl)
3. pingvin (a penguin)
4. ptica (a bird)
5. majmun (a monkey)
6. sunce (the sun)
7. mačka (a cat)

C. One Cyrillic text is missing - which one? Write it in the comment below:

Serbian Genitive with Sg. Feminine Nouns

I hope you have mastered your Genitive with Sg. Masc. nouns. That's why we are working on  the nouns which are Fem. Sg. today. Look at the examples:

1. Ja sam iznad zgrade! Ko sam ja? Da li sam ja ptica?
2. Danas sam ispred zgrade! Ko sam ja? Da li sam ja mačka?
3. Oni su iznad mene! Ko su oni? Ko sam ja?
4. On nije iznad mačke! Ja sam iznad mačke! Ko sam ja?

What happens with the following nouns?

1. zgrada = building
2. ptica = bird
3. mačka = cat
4. devojčica = girl
5. voda = water

when they follow the prepositions: 

• iznad = above or over
• ispod = below or under
• iz = from
• pored = near or beside

By looking the examples, you can see that the final -a disappears, becoming an -e:

1. Iznad zgradE = above the building
2. Ispod pticE = under the bird
3. Pored mačkE = beside the cat
4. Iza devojčicE = behind the girl
5. Iznad vodE = above the water

Asking simple questions with the verb TO BE in Serbian

I am sure you have noticed two types of questions in this exercise:

1. Wh-? questions: Ko sam ja = Who am I and Ko su oni? Who are they?
2. Yes-no questions: Da li sam ja pingvin? = Am I a penguin? 

With the verb to be=biti, it is obvious that there is

1. a wh-? question word before an inversion (ja sam becomes KO sam ja)
2. da li question phrase before an inversion (ja sam becomes DA LI sam ja)

Yes, it's that simple :)

Rešenje = Solution

Now that you understand EVERYTHING, it's time to solve the mystery...