Da li si tačno napisala njenu adresu?

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Breakdown of Da li si tačno napisala njenu adresu?

• njen: her
• adresa: address
• tačno: correctly

Questions & Answers about Da li si tačno napisala njenu adresu?

What does da li do in this sentence?

Da li is a very common way to form a yes/no question in Serbian.

So:

• Da li si napisala njenu adresu? = Did you write her address?
• Da li si tačno napisala njenu adresu? = Did you write her address correctly/exactly?

It does not have a direct one-word equivalent in English. It simply signals that the sentence is a question.

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Why is si in the second position?

Serbian often places short unstressed words, called clitics, near the beginning of the sentence, usually in the second position.

In this sentence:

• Da li comes first as the question marker
• si follows early because it is a clitic

So:

• Da li si tačno napisala njenu adresu?

This word order is natural in Serbian. Even though si means are/have depending on context, here it is part of the perfect tense construction, not a separate full verb like English are.

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Why is it napisala and not napisao?

Because the sentence is addressed to a female person.

Serbian past participles agree with the gender of the subject:

• napisao = a man wrote / you wrote (to a man)