Pažnja je važna.

Attention is important.

Breakdown of Pažnja je važna.

• biti: to be
• važan: important
• pažnja: attention

Questions & Answers about Pažnja je važna.

What does each word do in Pažnja je važna?

• pažnja = attention
• je = is
• važna = important

So the structure is simply:

noun + is + adjective

That is a very common Serbian sentence pattern.

Why is it važna and not važan or važno?

Because pažnja is a feminine singular noun, and adjectives in Serbian must agree with the noun in gender, number, and usually case.

So:

• važan = masculine singular
• važna = feminine singular
• važno = neuter singular

Since pažnja is feminine singular, the correct form is važna.

How do I know that pažnja is feminine?

A very common clue is the ending -a. Most Serbian nouns ending in -a are feminine.

So learners often recognize:

• pažnja → probably feminine
• therefore the adjective should also be feminine: važna

This is a helpful pattern, though there are some exceptions elsewhere in the language.