Word
Možda ćemo igrati tenis na planini za praznik.
Meaning
Maybe we will play tennis on the mountain for the holiday.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Možda ćemo igrati tenis na planini za praznik.
na
on, at / to, onto (with motion) / about (thinking about)
igrati
to play (sports)
tenis
tennis
za
for / at (a table) (+ instrumental)
Questions & Answers about Možda ćemo igrati tenis na planini za praznik.
The lesson says we drop the -i from the infinitive in the future tense. Why does igrati keep its -i here?
The -i is only dropped when the infinitive comes first in the sentence, attaching directly before the future tense helper word (like igrat ćemo). Here, the sentence starts with Možda, so the helper word ćemo takes the second position. Because the infinitive igrati comes after the helper word, it keeps its full dictionary form.
Could we rearrange the words and start the sentence with Igrati ćemo?
No, because ćemo is a weak word (called a clitic) that can never be the first word in a sentence. If you want to start with the action, you must combine them and drop the -i as taught in this lesson: Igrat ćemo tenis...
Why does the word for mountain change its ending to na planini?
The preposition na (on) is used here to show a static location (where the tennis is happening), which requires the locative case. The dictionary form is planina, and feminine nouns change their -a ending to -i in the locative case.
Why doesn't the word for holiday (praznik) change its ending after the preposition za?