Questions & Answers about Prijatelj koji živi blizu reke sada radi u banci.
What is the overall structure of this sentence?
It has a very typical Serbian structure:
- Prijatelj = the main noun, the subject
- koji živi blizu reke = a relative clause describing that noun
- sada = an adverb meaning now
- radi u banci = the main predicate, works in a bank
So the sentence is built like:
- friend
- who lives near the river
- now works in a bank
What does koji mean here?
Koji here means who or that.
It introduces a relative clause and connects prijatelj with živi blizu reke.
So:
- prijatelj koji živi... = the friend who lives... / the friend that lives...
In this sentence, koji refers back to prijatelj.
Why is it koji and not some other form?
Because koji must agree with the noun it refers to.
Here it refers to prijatelj, which is:
- masculine
- singular
- nominative
Also, koji is the subject of živi, so nominative is the correct case.