Autobus još nije stigao, ali će uskoro doći.

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Breakdown of Autobus još nije stigao, ali će uskoro doći.

• ali: but
• autobus: bus
• hteti: will

Questions & Answers about Autobus još nije stigao, ali će uskoro doći.

Why does još mean yet here?

In this sentence, još is used with a negative verb, so još nije stigao means hasn’t arrived yet.

A useful shortcut:

• još
  • affirmative often means still / more
• još
  • negative often means yet

Examples:

• Još čekam. = I’m still waiting.
• Još nije stigao. = He/it hasn’t arrived yet.

So here još is not more; it is the natural Serbian way to express yet.

How is nije stigao built grammatically?

Nije stigao is the Serbian perfect tense:

• nije = negative form of je (is/has) from biti = to be
• stigao = past participle of stići = to arrive

So literally, Serbian forms this with:

• auxiliary verb
  • past participle

In English, this often corresponds to either:

• didn’t arrive, or
• hasn’t arrived

depending on context.

Here, because the arrival is relevant , English naturally uses .