Breakdown of Nevreme je osigurani slučaj i veliki rizik.
biti
to be
velik
big
i
and
osigurani slučaj
an insured event
Questions & Answers about Nevreme je osigurani slučaj i veliki rizik.
What is the subject of the sentence, and what case is it in?
The subject is nevreme. It is in the nominative singular.
Grammatically, nevreme is a neuter noun, so you can think of it as:
- dictionary form: nevreme
- gender: neuter
- number: singular
- case here: nominative
That is why the verb is also singular: je.
Why is the verb je used here?
Je is the 3rd person singular present form of biti (to be).
So the sentence is built like:
Nevreme + je + osigurani slučaj i veliki rizik
This is the normal Serbian way to make an is/am/are sentence. Since nevreme is singular, the verb is singular too:
- nevreme je
- not nevreme su
Why are osigurani slučaj and veliki rizik in the nominative case?
Because after biti in this kind of sentence, Serbian often uses the nominative for what the subject is.
So this is a classification/equation structure:
- Nevreme je osigurani slučaj.