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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 60 More Useful Verbs and Verbal Paerns 352 / 600

plural):

Goran N je rastavio igračku A na dijelove A . Goran has disassembled the toy to its

parts.

The following table summarizes this verb pair and its (common) family:

stavljati ~ staviti

prefix used with meaning

none A (+ dest) put, place

po- A (+ dest) set, place, erect

A

leave

o-

A na miru leave alone

na- A / inf continue

pretpo- da + clause suppose that...

ra- A (na A) take apart (to...)

sa- A put together

There are more verb pairs derived from this base pair; these were just the most

common ones.

Another very common verb family is derived from:

davati (daje) ~ dati give

The verb pair is simply used with two objects, one in A (what is given) another in DL

(who got it):

Ana N je dala Goranu DL čokoladu A . Ana has given Goran a chocolate.

This pair is used first in literal meaning of ‘give’, not when e.g. ‘giving a lecture’.

However, it has more uses than this basic one (it could be argued that dati behaves

as a ‘modal’ verb in some circumstances). They will be explained gradually.

It’s interesting that the perf. verb dati is often used in the present tense, especially

when negated, to indicate intentions:

Ne dam ti DL loptu A . I don’t want to give you the ball.

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The perf. verb is short (its pres-3 is only one syllable) so it’s one of few verbs where

stress shifts to the negative particle ne¨ even in the ‘western’ stress scheme. This is

the cause of quite frequent (but non-standard) spellings like nedamo we don’t want

to give and like.

This verb pair is also used in an interesting phrase:

davati (daje) ~ dati + sve od sebe do his/her/their best

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