Ona sedi među prijateljima.

she

Breakdown of Ona sedi među prijateljima.

• prijatelj: friend
• sedeti: to sit
• među: among

Questions & Answers about Ona sedi među prijateljima.

Why is prijateljima in that form?

Because među here requires the instrumental case when it describes a location or a static situation.

So:

• prijatelji = friends
• među prijateljima = among friends

The ending -ima is the instrumental plural ending for this noun.

A learner often notices that Serbian changes noun endings a lot, and this is one of those cases: the preposition controls the case.

Why is it među prijateljima, not među prijatelje?

Because Serbian makes a distinction between:

• location / being somewhere → usually instrumental
• movement toward somewhere → often accusative

Here, the sentence describes a static situation: she is already sitting there. So:

• Ona sedi među prijateljima. = She is sitting among friends.

But with movement, you could get accusative, for example in a sentence meaning something like She sat down among her friends.

So the case helps show whether it is:

• where someone is or
• where someone goes

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