Word
Zanima me ovaj posao.
Meaning
This job interests me.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about Zanima me ovaj posao.
Why does Zanima me ovaj posao literally seem to mean This job interests me rather than I am interested in this job?
That is exactly how Serbian usually expresses this idea.
- zanimati = to interest
- ovaj posao = this job
- me = me
So the structure is literally:
- Ovaj posao me zanima = This job interests me
In natural English, that often becomes I’m interested in this job, but Serbian commonly uses the interest someone pattern instead of the English adjective pattern.
Why is it zanima, not zanimam?
Because the verb agrees with ovaj posao, not with me.
In this sentence, the thing doing the interesting is ovaj posao. That noun phrase is:
- masculine
- singular
- nominative
So the verb is in 3rd person singular:
- ja zanimam = I interest
- on/ona/ono zanima = he/she/it interests
Here, ovaj posao is grammatically the subject, so you need zanima.
Why do we use me and not ja or mene?