Questions & Answers about Između restorana i apoteke je mala pekara.
What does između mean, and what case does it use?
Između means between.
It is followed by the genitive case, so the nouns after it change form:
- restoran → restorana
- apoteka → apoteke
So između restorana i apoteke means between the restaurant and the pharmacy.
Why are the words restorana and apoteke in those forms?
Because they come after između, and između requires the genitive.
Here you have two singular nouns joined by i (and), and both stay in the genitive:
- između restorana
- i apoteke
A very literal breakdown is:
- između = between
- restorana = of the restaurant / restaurant's (genitive form)
- i = and
- apoteke = of the pharmacy (genitive form)
Why is je in the middle of the sentence instead of right after pekara?
Because je is an enclitic in Serbian. Enclitics are short unstressed words that usually go in the second position of the clause.
In this sentence, the first whole phrase is , so comes right after that phrase: