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65 Carry, Bring, Drive: Transport Verbs

I will now introduce three important verb families that mostly do with transport,

that is, carrying, bringing, leading and driving, including some fairly distantly related

meanings.

The families are not symmetric: there’s no base pair. The first family is derived from

nositi carry. Derived verbs look like this, and perf. verbs are very irregular:

nositi carry

donositi («) ~ donijeti (donese, donio, donijela) bring ®

The basic verb means not just carry, but also wear:

Goran N nosi plavu majicu A . Goran is wearing a blue T-shirt.

If you now don’t understand how we distinguish carry and wear – we usually don’t

have to. With clothes and similar items (shoes, hats) the meaning wear is assumed.

The base verb is perfectly regular, so are derived impf. verbs. However, all perf.

verbs are irregular, and derived from forms not used on their own. For instance:

Ana N je donijela vino A . Ana brought wine.

donijeti past-f

This verb, and all derived from it, use destinations and origins:

Ana N je donijela sendvič A Goranu DL . Ana brought Goran a sandwich.

Common verbs that follow this pattern are:

-nositi («) ~

-nijeti (-nese, -nio, -nijela)

prefix used with meaning

do- A (DL) bring (here)

pre- A carry over, transfer

od-

A (DL) bring* (perf.)

A (od¨ G) take away

u- A bring in

pod- A tolerate, can stand

po- not a pair! (specific meanings)

The optional DL used with these verbs means, as expected, the person who will

receive something (in A).

The perf. verb odnijeti (etc.) is used as a perf. counterpart of nositi, to express that

carrying something to someone is completed, i.e. when something is brought or

delivered.

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