Medicinska sestra uzima krv.

The nurse takes blood.

Breakdown of Medicinska sestra uzima krv.

• uzimati: to take regularly
• krv: blood
• medicinska sestra: nurse

Questions & Answers about Medicinska sestra uzima krv.

Why is medicinska sestra two words, and what does each word do?

Medicinska sestra is a noun phrase:

• sestra = the noun, literally sister
• medicinska = an adjective meaning medical

Together, medicinska sestra is the normal Serbian expression for nurse.

Grammatically:

• sestra is feminine singular
• medicinska has to match it in gender, number, and case, so it also appears in the feminine singular form

So medicinska sestra literally means medical sister, but idiomatically it means nurse.

Why is it medicinska, not medicinski?

Because the adjective must agree with the noun it describes.

Here:

• sestra is feminine singular
• so the adjective must also be feminine singular
• that gives medicinska

Compare:

• medicinski brat = male nurse
• medicinska sestra = female nurse

So the ending -a is there because of agreement with sestra.

What case is medicinska sestra in?

It is in the nominative case because it is the of the sentence — the person doing the action.