Sada nema mnogo sunca, ali vetar je još jak.

to be

Breakdown of Sada nema mnogo sunca, ali vetar je još jak.

• imati: to have
• sada: now
• ne: not

Questions & Answers about Sada nema mnogo sunca, ali vetar je još jak.

Why is nema used here instead of nije?

Because nema is the normal Serbian way to say there is no / there isn’t.

It comes from imati (to have), but in expressions of existence it works like this:

• Ima sunca. = There is sun.
• Nema sunca. = There is no sun.

So Sada nema mnogo sunca literally works like Now there isn’t much sun.
Nije would be used with to be, not for this kind of there is/there isn’t idea.

Why is it mnogo sunca and not mnogo sunce?

After mnogo (much / a lot of), Serbian normally uses the genitive form of the noun.

So:

• mnogo vode = much water
• mnogo vremena = much time
• mnogo sunca = much sun

That is why you get sunca, not sunce.

What case is sunca, and why is that form used?

Sunca is genitive singular of sunce.

It appears here for two reasons:

1. mnogo usually requires the genitive.
2. nema in this existential sense also commonly goes with the genitive.