Večeras ćemo pozvati komšiju u svoj stan.

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Breakdown of Večeras ćemo pozvati komšiju u svoj stan.

• stan: apartment
• večeras: tonight
• hteti: will

Questions & Answers about Večeras ćemo pozvati komšiju u svoj stan.

Why does the sentence start with Večeras?

Večeras means tonight / this evening and it is an adverb of time. Serbian very often puts time expressions near the beginning of the sentence, especially when setting the scene.

So Večeras ćemo pozvati komšiju u svoj stan sounds very natural: first you say when, then the rest.

You could move it later, but that would sound different in focus:

• Večeras ćemo pozvati komšiju u svoj stan. = neutral, natural
• Pozvaćemo komšiju u svoj stan večeras. = also possible, with večeras more like added information at the end

How does ćemo pozvati work?

This is the future tense.

Serbian often forms the future with:

• a form of hteti (ću, ćeš, će, ćemo, ćete, će)
• plus the infinitive

Here:

• ćemo = we will
• pozvati = to invite / to call

So:

• ćemo pozvati = we will invite / we will call

Because the subject is understood from ćemo, Serbian does not need a separate word for we.

Why is it ćemo after Večeras, not before it?

Because ćemo is a . In Serbian, clitics usually go in the of the sentence or clause.