Questions & Answers about Da li znaš cenu ove košulje?
What does da li do in this sentence?
Da li is a very common way to form a yes/no question in Serbian.
So:
- Znaš cenu ove košulje. = You know the price of this shirt.
- Da li znaš cenu ove košulje? = Do you know the price of this shirt?
It does not translate word-for-word very neatly into English. Its job is basically to mark the sentence as a question.
A very common alternative is:
- Znaš li cenu ove košulje?
That means the same thing.
Why is it znaš here?
Znaš is the 2nd person singular present tense of znati = to know.
So:
- ja znam = I know
- ti znaš = you know
- on/ona zna = he/she knows
In this sentence, the speaker is talking to one person informally, so znaš is the correct form.
If you were speaking formally or to more than one person, you would say:
- Da li znate cenu ove košulje?
Is this sentence informal or formal?
It is informal singular, because of znaš.
Serbian distinguishes between:
- ti forms = informal singular