Breakdown of Portal eUprava radi normalno.
raditi
to work
Portal eUprava
the eGovernment Portal
normalno
normally
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Questions & Answers about Portal eUprava radi normalno.
Why is it radi here? Doesn’t that verb also mean to do or to work?
Yes. Radi is the 3rd person singular present of raditi.
In Serbian, raditi can mean:
- to work in the sense of functioning or operating
- to do/work on something, depending on context
In Portal eUprava radi normalno, radi means is working / is functioning.
So this is a very natural way to say that a system, device, website, or service is operating properly.
Why is there no word for is in the sentence?
Because Serbian often does not use the verb to be when another main verb already carries the meaning.
Here, the main verb is radi = works / is functioning, so no extra is is needed.
English says:
- The portal is working normally
Serbian says:
- Portal eUprava radi normalno
If you added je here, it would be wrong for this meaning.
Why is normalno used instead of normalan or normalni?