Nadmorska visina grebena je velika.

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Breakdown of Nadmorska visina grebena je velika.

• velik: big
• greben: a ridge
• nadmorska visina: altitude

Questions & Answers about Nadmorska visina grebena je velika.

Why is grebena used instead of greben?

Because Serbian uses the genitive case where English often uses of.

• greben = ridge
• grebena = of the ridge

So nadmorska visina grebena literally works like the elevation of the ridge.

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Which word is the subject in this sentence?

The subject is nadmorska visina.

A good way to tell is by looking at the predicate adjective:

• visina is feminine singular
• so the adjective is velika = feminine singular

That means the sentence is saying something about the elevation, not directly about the ridge.

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Why do nadmorska and velika both end in -a?

Because they both agree with visina, which is a feminine singular noun.

In Serbian, adjectives must agree with the noun they describe in:

• gender
• number
• case

So here:

• nadmorska visina = feminine singular
• visina je velika = feminine singular again