Questions & Answers about Potrošač ima zaostatak i dug.
What does potrošač mean here?
Potrošač literally means consumer. In everyday and administrative Serbian, it can also mean a customer, especially in contexts like utilities, billing, or services.
Grammatically:
- it is a masculine singular noun
- here it is the subject of the sentence
- it is in the nominative case
So Potrošač = the consumer / the customer depending on context.
Why is the verb ima used here?
Ima is the 3rd person singular present tense of imati, which means to have.
So:
- ja imam = I have
- ti imaš = you have
- on/ona/ono ima = he/she/it has
Since potrošač is singular, Serbian uses ima:
- Potrošač ima... = The consumer has...
Why are zaostatak and dug not changing form after ima?
After imati (to have), the thing possessed is normally in the accusative case.
However, both zaostatak and dug are: