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Easy Croaan (rev. 47b) / 60 More Useful Verbs and Verbal Paerns 355 / 600

impersonally (popravili su moj/mi auto they repaired my car) or using passive m

constructions (matching English my car was repaired). A Croatian passive

construction will be introduced right in the next chapter.

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® “Ekavian” forms, which dominate in Serbia, apply to the perf. verb uspjeti, in the

same way as for razumjeti (razumije,...) understand: its “Ekavian” form is uspeti,

the verb is fully regular, but the pres-3pl is uspeju.

In Serbia, infinitives are less often used in speech (and they get rarer more you go

southeast), the form da + present prevails. In Serbia, it would be much more

common to say:

Uspeli smo da rešimo problem A . We succeeded in solving the problem.

Uspela je da otvori prozor A . She managed to open the window.

. . .

Nastavio sam da čitam. I continued reading.

The noun stol table has the form sto (stol-) in Serbia and most of Bosnia, but it’s still

masculine.

• Exercise

Fill in the missing words:

________(a) ________(b) loptu! Pass me the ball!

__________________(c) spavati. I keep on sleeping.

____________(d) ________(e) auto. I sold the car.

Check answers here.

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