- Serbian conjugation
Serbian verbs are conjugated in:Conjugation tables and explanations translated to English and adapted from: Stanojčić, Živojin; Popović, Ljubomir: "Gramatika srpskoga jezika (Udžbenik za I, II, III i IV razred srednje škole)", Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva, Beograd, 2000.]
4 Past tenses
PerfectAorist Imperfect Pluperfect
The last two have a very limited use ("imperfect is still used in some dialects, but majority of native Serbian speakers consider it archaic; it may also be found in literature")1 Future tense
1st future tense - as opposed to the 2nd future tense or the future exact, which is considered a tense of the conditional mood by some contemporary linguists1 Present tense
Auxiliary Verbs
Verb "јесам"
Verb "јесам" is often regarded as the verb "to be" in the present tense. It is a
defective verb . It does not have the infinitive form; its basic dictionary form is "јесам" which is the present tense 1st person singular of the verb itself. Furthermore, it has the forms of present tense only:This technique applies to verbs such as:
"видети" (to see)
"ходати" (to walk)
"причати" (to talk)
"морати" (must)Irregular verbs
Irregular verbs are more complex to conjugate than regular verbs. Here is an example of the verb
Моћи ("to can, to be able to")References
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