Mi bismo pozvali i komšiju, jer on živi blizu nas.

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Breakdown of Mi bismo pozvali i komšiju, jer on živi blizu nas.

• živeti: to live
• blizu: near
• jer: because

Questions & Answers about Mi bismo pozvali i komšiju, jer on živi blizu nas.

Why is Mi included? Doesn’t bismo already mean we would?

Yes. In Serbian, the subject pronoun is often omitted because the verb form already shows the person and number.

So:

• Bismo pozvali... = We would invite...
• Mi bismo pozvali... = also We would invite..., but with extra emphasis or contrast

Using mi can suggest something like:

• As for us, we would invite...
• We would invite him, maybe unlike someone else

So mi is not strictly necessary here.

What exactly is bismo pozvali grammatically?

This is the conditional form, meaning would invite.

It is made from:

• bismo = the conditional auxiliary for we
• pozvali = the l-participle of pozvati

So:

• mi bismo pozvali = we would invite

A useful pattern is:

• ja bih
• ti bi
• on/ona/ono bi
• mi bismo
• vi biste
• oni/one/ona bi

Then you add the participle:

• bih pozvao / pozvala
• bismo pozvali / pozvale