Questions & Answers about Dostava je danas nemoguća.
What does each word in Dostava je danas nemoguća do grammatically?
- Dostava = delivery. It is a noun, feminine, singular, and here it is in the nominative because it is the subject of the sentence.
- je = is. This is the 3rd person singular of biti (to be).
- danas = today. This is an adverb of time.
- nemoguća = impossible / not possible. This is an adjective and it agrees with dostava in gender, number, and case.
So the structure is basically:
[Subject] + [is] + [time adverb] + [predicate adjective]
= Delivery is today impossible → natural English: Delivery is impossible today.
Why is it nemoguća and not nemoguć or nemoguće?
Because nemoguća must agree with dostava.
- dostava is feminine singular
- so the adjective must also be feminine singular
Compare:
- nemoguć = masculine singular
- nemoguća = feminine singular
- nemoguće = neuter singular, or sometimes plural depending on context
Since dostava is feminine, Serbian uses: