Polisa osiguranja će pokriti poplavu.

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Breakdown of Polisa osiguranja će pokriti poplavu.

• polisa osiguranja: an insurance policy
• poplava: a flood
• pokriti: to cover (insurance)

Questions & Answers about Polisa osiguranja će pokriti poplavu.

What does polisa osiguranja literally mean?

Literally, it means policy of insurance. In natural English, that is insurance policy.

Serbian often expresses this kind of noun-noun relationship with:

• a main noun +
• another noun in the genitive case

So:

• polisa = policy
• osiguranja = of insurance

Why is it osiguranja and not osiguranje?

Because after polisa, Serbian uses the genitive case to show the meaning of insurance.

The base form is:

• osiguranje = insurance

Its genitive singular form is:

• osiguranja

So:

• polisa osiguranja = insurance policy

This is a very common pattern in Serbian:

• čaša vode = glass of water
• karta grada = map of the city
• polisa osiguranja = insurance policy

Why is it poplavu and not poplava?

Because poplavu is the accusative singular form, and it is the direct object of the verb pokriti.

The basic form is: