Questions & Answers about Čitam svoj plan treninga.
Why is svoj used instead of moj?
Because svoj is the reflexive possessive adjective in Serbian. It means something like one’s own.
In Čitam svoj plan treninga, the subject is I, and the plan belongs to that same subject, so Serbian normally uses svoj:
- Čitam svoj plan treninga. = I’m reading my own training plan.
You can sometimes hear moj, but svoj is the standard and most natural choice when the possessor is the same as the subject of the sentence.
Compare:
- Čitam svoj plan. = I’m reading my own plan.
- Čitam njegov plan. = I’m reading his plan.
So svoj helps show that the plan belongs to the person doing the reading.
What case is svoj plan treninga in?
The whole object phrase is in the accusative, because it is the direct object of čitam (I read / am reading).
However, the nouns behave a little differently inside the phrase:
- svoj plan = accusative singular
- treninga = genitive singular
Why?
- plan is the main noun, and it is the direct object, so it goes in the accusative.
- treninga depends on plan and means of training / workout, so it goes in the genitive.
In masculine inanimate nouns like , the accusative singular is the same as the nominative singular, so does not change form.