Volan i menjač rade dobro.

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Breakdown of Volan i menjač rade dobro.

• raditi: to work
• i: and
• volan: a steering wheel

Questions & Answers about Volan i menjač rade dobro.

Why is the verb rade and not radi?

Because the subject is compound: volan i menjač = the steering wheel and the gearbox/gearshift.

In Serbian, when two singular nouns are joined by i (and), the verb normally goes in the plural.

• volan radi = the steering wheel works
• menjač radi = the gearbox works
• volan i menjač rade = the steering wheel and the gearbox work

So rade is the 3rd person plural form of raditi (to work / to function).

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What form are volan and menjač in?

They are in the nominative singular, because they are the subjects of the sentence.

• volan = steering wheel
• menjač = gearbox / transmission / gearshift

Even though each noun is singular by itself, together they make a plural idea, which is why the verb is plural: rade.

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What does dobro mean here, and why isn’t it dobri or dobar?

Here dobro is an adverb, meaning well.

So:

• rade dobro =