Čak ni neispravna stvar nema trag korišćenja.

not

Breakdown of Čak ni neispravna stvar nema trag korišćenja.

• stvar: thing
• trag korišćenja: a sign of use
• neispravan: not working; faulty

Questions & Answers about Čak ni neispravna stvar nema trag korišćenja.

What does čak ni mean in this sentence?

Čak ni means not even or even ... not, with strong emphasis.

So Čak ni neispravna stvar... means something like:

• Not even the faulty item...
• Even the faulty item doesn’t...

It highlights that the statement is true in an extreme case too.

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Why are there two negative elements: ni and nema? Isn’t that a double negative?

In Serbian, this is normal. Serbian uses negative concord, which means multiple negative words appear together in the same clause.

So:

• ni = marks not even
• nema = does not have / there is no

This is not considered bad grammar in Serbian. In fact, it is the expected pattern.

Compare:

• Niko ništa ne zna. = Nobody knows anything.
  • literally: Nobody nothing doesn’t know

So Čak ni neispravna stvar nema... is structurally normal Serbian.

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What does neispravna mean exactly?

Neispravna is the feminine form of neispravan.

For objects, it usually means:

• faulty
• defective
• not working properly
• out of order

So here it does not mean morally wrong or incorrect in an abstract sense. It means the item is defective or not functioning properly.

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