Questions & Answers about Još nismo odlučili da li idemo na more ili u selo.
What does još mean here?
Here još means still / yet.
So Još nismo odlučili = We still haven’t decided or We haven’t decided yet.
A useful thing to notice is that Serbian often uses još where English might use either still or yet, depending on the sentence.
- Još čekam. = I’m still waiting.
- Još nisam gotov. = I’m not finished yet.
In your sentence, još adds the idea that the decision remains unfinished.
Why is it nismo odlučili and not just ne odlučimo or something simpler?
Nismo odlučili is the perfect tense, formed with:
- the present tense of biti (sam, si, je, smo, ste, su)
- plus the past active participle (odlučio, odlučila, odlučili, etc.)
So:
- mi smo odlučili = we decided / we have decided
- mi nismo odlučili = we didn’t decide / we haven’t decided
In this sentence, Serbian uses the perfect because the idea is up to now, the decision has not been made.
The verb is odlučiti (perfective), meaning to make a decision / decide. With negation in this kind of sentence, it often corresponds naturally to English haven’t decided yet.