Moramo da rastavimo fioku.

must

Breakdown of Moramo da rastavimo fioku.

• da: that
• fioka: a drawer
• rastaviti: to take apart

Questions & Answers about Moramo da rastavimo fioku.

What does moramo mean?

Moramo is the 1st person plural present form of morati, which means must / have to.

So moramo means we must or we have to.
Depending on context, it can sound like a strong necessity, an obligation, or simply something that needs to be done.

Where is the word we in this sentence?

Serbian often drops subject pronouns when the verb ending already shows who the subject is.

Here, the ending -mo in moramo tells you the subject is we.
The verb rastavimo also has the same we ending.

So Mi moramo da rastavimo fioku is possible, but mi is usually omitted unless you want emphasis or contrast.

Why is there da before rastavimo?

After verbs like morati, Serbian very often uses da + present tense where English would use an infinitive.

So:

• moramo da rastavimo = we have to take apart

You can think of da + present as one of the main Serbian ways to express something like English to do after another verb.

In this sentence, da does not mean that in the usual English sense.