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Questions & Answers about Boli me mišić.
What does each word do in Boli me mišić?
- boli = hurts / is hurting
- me = me
- mišić = muscle
Grammatically, Serbian structures this as something like “A muscle hurts me”, even though in natural English we usually say “My muscle hurts” or “A muscle is hurting.”
So:
- mišić is the thing that hurts
- me is the person affected by the pain
Why is it boli, not bolim?
Because boli agrees with mišić, not with me.
The verb boleti works like this:
- boli me glava = my head hurts
- boli me ruka = my arm hurts
- boli me mišić = my muscle hurts
So the subject is mišić (muscle), which is 3rd person singular, and that is why the verb is boli.
If the subject were plural, the verb would be plural too:
- bole me mišići = my muscles hurt
Why do we use me here instead of ja?