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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 23 I’m Cold: Basic Impressions 137 / 600

sentence – there’s only one possible order.

For countable nouns, the same expression will work, but you must use genitive plural

– the form I didn’t explain yet. (Such use of the genitive case is explained in a greater

detail in 45 Quantities and Existence; for the genitive plural, see 44 Genitive Plural.)

So far, we have seen three uses of the DL case (without prepositions, on its own).

One was a recipient of something (1), another was person who is somehow involved

in the action, usually because he or she is connected to the object (a body part, a

personal item, kin) (2), and this one is about personal impressions and feelings (3):

(1) Ana N daje šalicu A Goranu DL . Ana is giving a cup to Goran. ®

(2) Ana N pere Goranu DL kosu A . Ana is washing Goran’s hair.

(3) Goranu DL je hladno. Goran is cold.

As you can see, in all these uses, DL represents a person who is not causing

davati

prati

something to happen, but who is somehow affected while not being really an object.

(The object in (1) is a cup, and the object in (2) is the hair.)

______

® Using trebati with DL seems preferred in Standard Serbian.

Instead of šalica, in Serbia and Bosnia, šolja and šoljica are used for cup.

• Exercise

Fill in the right forms of pronouns and other words:

Žao ______(a) je. We’re sorry.

Nije ______(b) hladno. I’m not cold.

__________(c) je vruće. Goran feels hot.

__________(d) ______(e) je. We’re glad.

______________(f) ____(g) umorno. I feel tired.

Check answers here.

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