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Questions & Answers about Menjač radi dobro.
What part of speech is menjač, and what exactly does it mean?
Menjač is a noun. In everyday Serbian, it most often means gearbox or transmission, and sometimes it can also refer to a gear shifter/gear lever, depending on context.
In Menjač radi dobro, it is most naturally understood as the subject of the sentence: the gearbox/transmission is functioning well.
Grammatically, menjač is:
- masculine
- singular
- in the nominative case here, because it is the subject
Why is the verb radi used here?
Radi is the 3rd person singular present tense of raditi.
The verb raditi can mean:
- to work
- to function
- to operate
So in this sentence, radi means something like works / is working / functions.
A few present-tense forms of raditi are:
- ja radim = I work
- ti radiš = you work
- on/ona/ono radi = he/she/it works
Since menjač is singular, Serbian uses radi.
Why is it dobro and not dobar?