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Questions & Answers about Uštedećemo novac.
Why is there no separate word for we in this sentence?
Because Serbian usually drops subject pronouns when the verb already makes the subject clear.
In uštedećemo, the ending shows 1st person plural, so the meaning we is already built in.
You could add mi for emphasis, but it is not necessary:
- Uštedećemo novac. = We will save money.
- Mi ćemo uštedeti novac. = We will save money. (more emphasis on we)
Why is uštedećemo written as one word?
This is a normal way of forming the Serbian future tense.
The verb is uštedeti and the future auxiliary is ćemo. When the auxiliary comes after the infinitive, Serbian often writes them together as one word:
- uštedećemo
- compare: ćemo uštedeti in a different word order
So uštedećemo is basically:
- uštede-
- ćemo
This is very common in Serbian.
Why is it uštedećemo, not uštedićemo?
Because this future form is built from the infinitive stem, not from the present-tense stem.
The infinitive is uštedeti.
For the fused future form, you remove -ti and add the future auxiliary: