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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 39 Would, Could: Condionals 232 / 600M gu da jedem.Mogla bih da jedem. I could eat. (female speaking)moći past-f | jestiStandard Serbian insists that the verb trebati need/should must be used impersonallywith another verb, so the standard option in Serbia is only:Trebalo bi da spavam. lit. ‘It’s needed that I sleep.’ = I should sleep.However, in the real speech there’s much more freedom.Instead of kino and kava, the words bioskop and kafa are used in Serbia and mostof Bosnia for cinema and coffee.• ExerciseComplete the following sentences:__________(a) ______(b) knjigu. I’d read a book.Goran ____(c) ____(d) __________(e). Goran would like to play.Check answers here.
Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 40 Future Tense 233 / 60040 Future TenseWe have learned how to make the present tense. We also know how to make thepast tense. But what about the future tense? It’s quite easy to make in Croatian.First you need the infinitive form of the verb you want to use. That’s really easy,since infinitive forms are found in any dictionary.Next, you need forms of an auxiliary verb that’s simply made from present of theverb htjeti (hoće +, htio, htjela) want by dropping the first syllable (ho). It requiresplacement at the second position and looks like this:pers. sing. plur.1st ću² ćemo²2nd ćeš² ćete²3rd će² će²For example:Goran N će jesti. Goran will eat.There’s a rather strange rule: if an infinitive on -ti is followed immediately by anfuture auxiliary (ću², ćeš², etc.) the final -i in the infinitive is dropped:Jest ću. I’ll eat. ®This of course also applies to the verb biti (je² +) be:Bit će hladno. It will be cold.This doesn’t apply to verbs having infinitives ending in -ći:Ići ćemo u školu A . We’ll go to school.Colloquially, it’s quite common to leave out -i from the infinitive -ti always, so you’llhear quite often:Goran N će jest. (colloq.) Goran will eat.(You’ll also often see, mostly in casual writing, non-standard spellings where thefinal -i is not dropped, e.g. biti ću, and so on.)As all other verbal second-position forms – the only exception being je² – all theforms ću², ćeš², će²... come before any second-position pronouns:Bit će ti DL hladno. You’ll be cold.2Čut ćemo se. ‘We’ll hear each other.’ (i.e. We’ll be in touch over phone.)The form će² is ambiguous – it doesn’t distinguish singular and plural:Vidjet će me A . He/She/They will see me.1Of course, you can always add a subject pronoun if the meaning is not clear from
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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 39 Would, Could: Condionals 232 / 600
M gu da jedem.
Mogla bih da jedem. I could eat. (female speaking)
moći past-f | jesti
Standard Serbian insists that the verb trebati need/should must be used impersonally
with another verb, so the standard option in Serbia is only:
Trebalo bi da spavam. lit. ‘It’s needed that I sleep.’ = I should sleep.
However, in the real speech there’s much more freedom.
Instead of kino and kava, the words bioskop and kafa are used in Serbia and most
of Bosnia for cinema and coffee.
• Exercise
Complete the following sentences:
__________(a) ______(b) knjigu. I’d read a book.
Goran ____(c) ____(d) __________(e). Goran would like to play.
Check answers here.
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