Learn Montenegrin Language
Normally after: The first element in the sentence: Prijatelj mi jerekao da … Or the whole phrase: jedan moj stari prijatelj mi je rekao da… Ne + verb is treated as one word: On je na putu i ne može nam se javiti. Ne ide mi se na taj sastanak. Some conjunctions cannot be treated […]
The nouns that have only plural form are called pluralia tantum. Most of these nouns are made of two parts which make the whole. They require verbs and adjectives in plural. They are either feminine or neuter gender, but used in plural. Some of them are: makaze, vrata, djeca, jasle, pantalone, farmerice, naočare, novine, merdevine (stube), […]
Type 1 – the realizable conditional Refers to an action that can happen in the future. Ako + present + future I Example: Ako dođeš, dobićeš poklon. Ako + future II + future I (less common) Ako budeš došao, dobićeš poklon. Type 2 – the potentially realizable conditional The speaker shows the desire for something […]
The so-called “fleeting A” or “movable A” refers to the phonetic alternation in which short a makes an appearance and loss in certain inflected forms of nouns. Historically, Montenegrin did not tolerate any final consonantal clusters except st, zd, št, žd, šć, žđ, šč, and dž, as they were often difficult to pronounce in the […]
I Endings of the instrumental singular are the same for all three genders. For masculine nouns ending in a consonant add – om, and for neuter ending in – o, and feminine ending in –a replace the last letter with –om. Some neuter nouns, such as more, end in – e. For these nouns change […]
Čekati to wait Dočekati meet, wait Pričekati wait a while Sačekati ambush, meet Očekivati expect Dati […]
Make questions for the following statements (the underlined parts) using appropriate interrogative words kakav, gdje, ko, kada, koji, čiji, šta i kako as shown in the model: Mi radimo u ambasadi. _______________________________________________________ Vi ćete raditi mnogo. _________________________________________________________ Oni će ići kdo doktora u 9. _____________________________________________________ Oni će ići na sastanak kolima. __________________________________________________ Oni se ne […]
Imperfective Perfective Biti (to be) Vjerovati (to believe) povjerovati Vidjeti (to see) Vraćati se (to get back, to return) vratiti se Gledati (to watch) pogledati Gubiti (to lose) izgubiti Dobijati (to get) dobiti Dolaziti (to arrive, to come) doći Željeti (to want, to wish) poželjeti Živjeti (to live) poživjeti ( to live long […]
If the infinitive ends in -ći, most of the verbs in past tense will follow this pattern: ići naći moći reći peći M. išao našao mogao rekao pekao F. išla našla mogla rekla pekla N. išlo Našlo moglo reklo peklo Pl. išli Našli mogli rekli peklo Pl. (f) išle našle mogle rekle pekle Pl. (n) […]
This is a small group of nouns that has its own declension. Almost all feminine nouns ending in a consonant have an – i ending in the nominative, genitive and accusative plural forms. This group of nouns includes almost all the abstract nouns ending in the foreign suffix – ost ( or – est and […]
Montenegrin/ Serbian is an easy language to spell and pronounce. It follows phonetic principal — every letter represents only one sound. In Montenegrin/Serbian you ‘write as you speak and read as it is written’. There are two alphabets in use — Latin and Cyrillic. Both the Latin and the Cyrillic alphabets contain 30 letters to represent […]
Nominative Noun or adjective used in nominative is used in its default form. This is the form found in dictionaries. sg. pl. M. -Ø: bulevar-Ø, momak-Ø -i: bulevar-i, momc-i F. -a: žen-a, devojk-a -e: žen-e, devojk-e N. -o/-e: pism-o, polj-e -a: pism-a, polj-a We use nominative: 1. as the subject of the sentence, […]
Perfective and imperfective verbs In Montenegrin language the perfective aspect is used to convey the notion that something has happened (the activity is completed), while the imperfective is used for activities that are continous or repeated. Imperfective is generally used in reference to activities occuring in the present, as well as in generalizations, while the […]
Exercises: Fill in the correct forms of the modal verbs: Da li i vi (moći) _____________________ da idete u bioskop? On (htjeti) _________________________ da živi u malom gradu. Da li (ona – smjeti) ___________________ da radi tako nešto? Da li vi (morati) _____________________ da živite na Dorćolu? Da li oni (htjeti) ______________________ da rade […]
In Montenegrin language there aren’t as many modal verbs as in English. Generally, we can say that there are four modal verbs: moći, morati, smjeti and htjeti. MOĆI Verb moći (can, be able to) doesn’t follow regular conjugation patterns and must be memorized: Ja mogu mi možemo […]
