The Passive Voice in Serbian - Verb Forms
Let me give you some examples of the Passive Voice in Serbian, and then you can have fun practicing with a few Quizlet exercises!
Zgrada je sagrađena prošle godine - the building was built last year
Rata je uplaćena - the installment was paid
Nove kancelarije su otvorene pre...
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Showing posts with label Passive in Serbian. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Monday, March 11, 2019
The original version of the article can be found on Blic. The text for this lesson is slightly changed:
You can practice reading with me and you can do the following exercise:
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Friday, February 17, 2017
Serbian Passive Voice with Exercises
Unfortunately, there haven't been many posts about the Passive Voice on this blog. I want this to change and that's why I would like to add a few more exercises about this topic. Based on the following fun song which has great lyrics about Rakija production, I'll make a few exercises...
Monday, November 17, 2014
Passive Participle Verb Forms
The Passive Voice in Serbian is not that hard, but the main problem is the verb form called "trpni glagolski pridev", or passive participle in English. Although I have already written about it, it can be useful to mention how to form it:
*VERB STEM + -N/-NA/-NO // -NI/-NE/-NA
Example:...
Friday, July 18, 2014
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Listen to this interesting story about Filip Vukša, a modest Belgrade hero, and try to do the following exercises dedicated to the verb forms in active and passive voice in Serbian.
a. Exercise 1 - filling in the gaps with the appropriate verb form in active voice.
b. Exercise 2 - turning the verbs which were in...
Thursday, September 05, 2013
Now that you've learnt the introductory song by heart (napamet), you are ready for more examples with the word order of the sentences with reflexive or impersonal "se". This time I'll cover the word order in the Simple Present tense with all three forms, affirmative, negative and questions. So, let's start :
Reflexive...
Friday, March 08, 2013
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If you have successfully solved the previous two parts of this detective story, I'm sure you're ready = spremi ste, to continue working on the case:
Part 1
Part 2
Убиство у радној соби
Part 1: What has been found and where ?
Извештај, 2. фебруар, 20:16
Дежурни официр - Стојан Нешић,
Место убиства: кућа убијеног...
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
in The Passive Voice is not widely used in the Serbian language. That's why it doesn't have some special morphological means to express it, but uses the following:1. Auxiliary + passive participle (-n/-t endings)Stolica je polomljeNA. = The chair is broken.2. Reflexive forms (impersonal structures with the impersonal pronoun...