Breakdown of U petak sam pekao meso u pećnici.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
meso
meat
u
in, into
petak
Friday
peći
to bake / to roast, to fry (meat)
pećnica
oven (f)
Questions & Answers about U petak sam pekao meso u pećnici.
The word for baked is pekao, but what is the infinitive?
The infinitive is peći (to bake or to roast). Verbs ending in -ći have irregular past tense forms. For peći, the root changes to give us pekao for a masculine speaker.
If a woman is saying this sentence, how would it change?
A female speaker would say U petak sam pekla meso u pećnici. The masculine -kao ending in irregular verbs like peći drops the a when adding the feminine -la ending, making it pekla instead of pekala.
Why does the preposition u mean 'on' in u petak but 'in' in u pećnici?
The preposition u changes meaning based on the grammatical case it triggers. U petak uses the accusative case to express time (on a specific day). U pećnici uses the locative case to describe a static location (inside the oven).
Are the words pekao and pećnici related?
Yes! They share the same root. The verb peći means to bake, and pećnica is the oven. You will also see this root in pekar (baker) and pekara (bakery).
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