Breakdown of Vježbanje je često teško ujutro.
biti
to be (sam, si, je)
težak
difficult / severe, serious
često
often
ujutro
in the morning
vježbanje
exercising
Questions & Answers about Vježbanje je često teško ujutro.
How do we get the noun vježbanje from the verb vježbati?
Vježbanje is a verbal noun meaning "exercising". To form it, you take an imperfective verb like vježbati, drop the infinitive ending -ti, and add the suffix -nje.
Since vježbanje is a noun, what gender is it? Is that why teško ends in -o?
Exactly! All verbal nouns ending in -nje are neuter gender. Because of this, any adjective describing it must be in the neuter singular form. That's why we use teško instead of the masculine težak or feminine teška.
The word for morning is jutro. Why is it written as one word, ujutro, here?
Ujutro is a fixed adverb meaning "in the morning". It comes from merging the preposition u (in) with jutro (morning). It functions as a single time word, so it never changes its ending.
If I wanted to start the sentence with često, would the word order change?
Yes, because of the enclitic je. Enclitics naturally want to be in the second logical position of a sentence. If you bring the adverb to the front, the sentence must become: Često je vježbanje teško ujutro.
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