Questions & Answers about Kočnice i gume su važne.
What do the individual words in Kočnice i gume su važne mean?
- kočnice = brakes
- i = and
- gume = tires
- su = are
- važne = important
So the structure is very close to English: Brakes and tires are important.
Why is su used here?
Su is the 3rd person plural form of the verb biti (to be), so it means are.
- ja sam = I am
- ti si = you are
- on/ona/ono je = he/she/it is
- mi smo = we are
- vi ste = you are
- oni/one/ona su = they are
Because kočnice i gume is a plural subject, Serbian uses su.
Why does važne end in -e?
Because the adjective has to agree with the nouns it describes.
Here, both kočnice and gume are feminine plural, so the adjective is also feminine plural:
- singular feminine: