Polaznik pohađa kurs.

Polaznik means attendee, participant, enrollee, or course participant. In this sentence, it refers to a person who is taking or attending a course.

It is a masculine singular noun.
If you were talking about a female participant, you would normally say polaznica.

Examples:

• Polaznik pohađa kurs. = The participant attends/is taking a course.
• Polaznica pohađa kurs. = The female participant attends/is taking a course.

Pohađa is the 3rd person singular present tense of pohađati.

So:

• ja pohađam = I attend
• ti pohađaš = you attend
• on/ona pohađa = he/she attends

It is used for something a person regularly attends or is currently taking, such as:

• kurs = a course
• školu = school
• nastavu = classes/instruction

So Polaznik pohađa kurs is literally The participant attends a course.

Kurs is the direct object of the verb pohađa, so it is in the accusative case.

However, kurs is a masculine inanimate noun, and for many masculine inanimate nouns in Serbian, the accusative singular looks exactly the same as the nominative singular.

So:

• nominative: kurs
• accusative: kurs

That is why the sentence uses kurs, not a visibly different form.

Compare:

• Polaznik pohađa kurs.
• Vidim kurs.

But with a feminine noun, you would see a clearer change:

• škola → školu
• Polaznik pohađa školu.

Serbian does not have articles like English a/an and the.

So Polaznik pohađa kurs can mean:

• The participant attends a course
• The participant attends the course
• A participant attends a course

The exact meaning depends on context.

Serbian usually shows definiteness through:

• context
• word order
• demonstratives such as taj (that), ovaj (this)

For example:

• Polaznik pohađa kurs. = a/the participant attends a/the course
• Polaznik pohađa taj kurs. = the participant attends that course

The sentence has the neutral, basic Serbian word order:

Polaznik pohađa kurs.
= Subject + Verb + Object

This is the most natural order for a simple statement.

But Serbian word order is more flexible than English, so you can move things around for emphasis or style:

• Kurs pohađa polaznik.
• Pohađa kurs polaznik.

These are grammatically possible, but they sound more marked and would usually depend on context. For a learner, Polaznik pohađa kurs is the best default pattern.

A rough pronunciation is:

po-HA-dja

A few useful details:

• h is pronounced clearly, unlike in many English words where it can be weak.
• đ is a special Serbian letter. It sounds somewhat like the j in duke or the soft sound in Georgia, depending on your accent.
• The final a is a clear short vowel, like a in father, not reduced to a schwa.

So pohađa should not sound like English pohaja or pohadza. The đ is important.

Đ đ is a separate letter in the Serbian Latin alphabet.

It represents a soft consonant sound that English does not match perfectly. It is often approximated as:

• a soft dj
• similar to the sound some English speakers produce in duke or during

So:

• pohađa is not the same as:
• pohada
• pohadja in standard spelling

In informal typing, people sometimes write dj instead of đ, but the correct spelling is đ.

Not exactly.

Polaznik specifically means someone who attends a course, training, program, or class. It often sounds like participant, attendee, or trainee.

Student in Serbian can be:

• student = university student
• učenik = school pupil
• polaznik = course attendee / participant

So if someone is taking a language course, polaznik is often a very good word. It is more specific than English student in some contexts.

Polaznik is in the nominative singular because it is the subject of the sentence.

The subject is the person doing the action:

• polaznik = the one who attends
• kurs = the thing being attended

So the structure is:

• Polaznik = nominative subject
• pohađa = verb
• kurs = accusative object

No. Pohađati is commonly used for things that someone attends regularly.

For example:

• pohađati kurs = attend a course
• pohađati školu = attend school
• pohađati nastavu = attend classes/instruction
• pohađati predavanja = attend lectures

So it is a useful verb whenever someone is regularly present at an organized educational activity.

You would change both the subject and the verb:

• Polaznici pohađaju kurs. = The participants attend a course / the course.

Here:

• polaznik → polaznici (plural)
• pohađa → pohađaju (3rd person plural)

If you want both noun and object in plural, you could say:

• Polaznici pohađaju kurseve. = The participants attend courses.

Yes, but the meaning is a little different.

• Polaznik pohađa kurs means the person is enrolled in / attends the course, often in a more formal or general sense.
• Polaznik ide na kurs literally means the person goes to the course. This can sound a bit more physical or conversational.

So both are possible, but pohađa kurs is often the more standard choice when talking about attending a course as an activity or program.

Usually it suggests a current or habitual situation: the participant is taking the course, attends it regularly, or is enrolled in it.

In Serbian, the present tense often covers both:

• habitual action
• ongoing present situation

So Polaznik pohađa kurs can mean:

• the participant attends the course regularly
• the participant is currently taking the course

It normally does not mean the person is attending it at this exact second unless the context makes that clear.