Questions & Answers about To je grad.
To is a demonstrative pronoun meaning something like that or it, depending on context.
In this sentence, it often works like that when you are pointing something out or identifying it:
- To je grad. = That is a city/town.
But in natural English, we often translate it as it in some contexts, even though Serbian is using to.
Also, to is grammatically neuter singular, which is very common when referring to something in a general way.
Je is the 3rd person singular form of the verb biti (to be).
So it means is.
Serbian often drops subject pronouns like ja, ti, on, but the verb to be itself is still usually expressed in sentences like this. So:
- To je grad. = That is a city/town.
You generally cannot leave out je here and still have a normal complete sentence.
Serbian has no articles, so there is no direct equivalent of English a/an or the.
That means grad can mean: