U mom frižideru nema mesa, ali je pun voća i povrća.

There is no meat in my fridge, but it is full of fruit and vegetables.

Breakdown of U mom frižideru nema mesa, ali je pun voća i povrća.

• biti: to be
• imati: to have
• u: in
• ne: not

Questions & Answers about U mom frižideru nema mesa, ali je pun voća i povrća.

Why is it u mom frižideru and not u moj frižider?

Because after u meaning in, Serbian uses the locative case when talking about location.

• frižider = refrigerator
• u frižideru = in the refrigerator

The adjective/pronoun also has to match the noun:

• moj frižider = my refrigerator
• u mom frižideru = in my refrigerator

So both words change:

• moj → mom
• frižider → frižideru

If you said u moj frižider, that would be ungrammatical in standard Serbian in this meaning.

What case is frižideru, and why does it end in -u?

Frižideru is in the locative singular.

The noun frižider is a masculine noun, and many masculine nouns take -u in the locative singular:

• grad → u gradu
• stan → u stanu
• frižider → u frižideru

This happens because the phrase is expressing location: in the fridge.

Why does the sentence say nema mesa instead of something like meso nije or nema meso?