Breakdown of Rezervisala sam sedište i povratnu kartu.
biti
to be
i
and
sedište
a seat
povratna karta
a return ticket
Questions & Answers about Rezervisala sam sedište i povratnu kartu.
Why is rezervisala sam made of two words, and what tense is it?
This is the normal Serbian past tense structure.
It is formed with:
- the past active participle: rezervisala
- the auxiliary verb jesam in clitic form: sam = I am / have in this tense pattern
So:
- rezervisala sam = I reserved / I have reserved
In Serbian, past tense often looks like this:
- radio sam = I worked (male speaker)
- radila sam = I worked (female speaker)
So rezervisala sam literally follows the same pattern.
Why is it rezervisala, not rezervisao?
Because the form agrees with the gender of the speaker.
In the Serbian past tense, the participle changes depending on who is speaking:
- rezervisao sam = I reserved (male speaker)
- rezervisala sam = I reserved (female speaker)
So this sentence is said by a woman.
If a man said the same sentence, it would be:
- Rezervisao sam sedište i povratnu kartu.
Why is there no word for I in the sentence?