Na aerodromu je uvek velika gužva pre svakog leta.

There is always a big crowd at the airport before every flight.

Breakdown of Na aerodromu je uvek velika gužva pre svakog leta.

• biti: to be
• velik: big
• na: at
• svaki: every

Questions & Answers about Na aerodromu je uvek velika gužva pre svakog leta.

Why does the sentence start with Na aerodromu? Why na, not u?

In Serbian, na aerodromu means at the airport.

A native English speaker often expects u because English uses in or at in different ways, but Serbian prepositions do not match English one-to-one. With some places, Serbian naturally uses na, and aerodrom is one of them.

So:

• na aerodromu = at the airport
• not usually u aerodromu in this meaning

Very roughly:

• u often means in / inside
• na often means on / at, but in many fixed location expressions it simply has to be learned

Here, na aerodromu is the normal idiomatic phrase.

Why is it aerodromu and not aerodrom?

Because after na when talking about a location, Serbian uses the locative case.

The noun aerodrom changes like this:

• nominative: aerodrom
• locative: aerodromu

So:

• na aerodromu = at the airport

This is a very common pattern:

• na fakultetu = at the faculty / at college
• na poslu = at work
• na moru = at the seaside