Word
Kasirka mi sada vraća kusur.
Meaning
The cashier is giving me the change back now.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
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Questions & Answers about Kasirka mi sada vraća kusur.
What does kasirka mean, and why is it feminine?
Kasirka means cashier, specifically a female cashier.
In Serbian, many job titles have masculine and feminine forms:
- kasir = male cashier
- kasirka = female cashier
Because the sentence uses kasirka, we know the cashier is a woman.
What is mi doing in this sentence?
Mi means to me here.
It is the short/dative form of ja (I). Serbian often uses these short clitic forms for indirect objects.
So:
- mi = to me
- ti = to you
- mu = to him
- joj = to her
In this sentence:
- Kasirka mi vraća kusur = The cashier is giving the change back to me
English often uses word order instead of case endings, but Serbian marks this with the dative pronoun mi.
Why is it mi and not mene or ja?