Zvučnik pušta plejlistu.

The loudspeaker is playing the playlist.

Breakdown of Zvučnik pušta plejlistu.

• pustiti: to let, release, or put on
• plejlista: a playlist
• zvučnik: a loudspeaker

Questions & Answers about Zvučnik pušta plejlistu.

What does zvučnik mean here? Is it a person or a device?

Here zvučnik means a speaker / loudspeaker, the audio device.

It does not normally mean a speaker in the sense of a person who is speaking. For a person, Serbian would usually use a different word depending on the context.

So in this sentence, Zvučnik pušta plejlistu. means the device is playing the playlist.

What is the basic form of pušta?

The basic form is puštati.

In this sentence, pušta is:

• 3rd person singular
• present tense
• from the imperfective verb puštati

So literally it is something like:

• the speaker plays
• the speaker is playing
• the speaker lets out / runs

In this context, puštati is commonly used for playing audio, music, a track, a playlist, a video, etc.

Why does pušta mean plays? Doesn’t it usually mean lets go or releases?

Yes — puštati has a broad meaning. Its core idea is something like to let go, to let, to release, or to set in motion.

From that core meaning, it also developed the common media-related meaning: