Posle krađe bismo odmah blokirali kreditnu karticu.

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Breakdown of Posle krađe bismo odmah blokirali kreditnu karticu.

• posle: after
• odmah: immediately
• kreditna kartica: the credit card

Questions & Answers about Posle krađe bismo odmah blokirali kreditnu karticu.

Why is it posle krađe and not posle krađa?

Because posle requires the genitive case.

The base form of the noun is krađa (theft), but after posle (after), it changes to the genitive singular:

• nominative: krađa
• genitive: krađe

So:

• posle krađe = after the theft / after a theft

This is a very common pattern in Serbian:

• posle ručka = after lunch
• posle sastanka = after the meeting
• posle škole = after school

What exactly does bismo mean here?

Bismo is the auxiliary used to form the conditional in Serbian, roughly like English would.

In this sentence:

• bismo blokirali = we would block

The Serbian conditional is usually built with:

• a form of biti in the conditional (bih, bi, bismo, biste, bi)
• plus the past participle of the main verb

So:

• ja bih blokirao/blokirala = I would block
• mi bismo blokirali = we would block

This often expresses:

• a hypothetical action
• something that would happen under certain circumstances