Koliko grama ima ovo pakovanje?

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Breakdown of Koliko grama ima ovo pakovanje?

• imati: to have
• koliko: how much
• gram: the gram

Questions & Answers about Koliko grama ima ovo pakovanje?

Why does the sentence start with koliko?

Because koliko is the question word asking about quantity: how much / how many.

In this sentence, koliko grama means how many grams. Serbian often puts the question word or question phrase first, just like English does.

So:

• Koliko? = How much? / How many?
• Koliko grama? = How many grams?

Why is it grama and not gram?

After words that ask about quantity, like koliko, Serbian uses a special quantity form of the noun, usually the genitive.

So with gram, you say:

• jedan gram = one gram
• dva grama = two grams
• pet grama = five grams
• koliko grama = how many grams

So grama is the correct form after koliko.

Does koliko mean how much or how many?

It can mean either, depending on what comes after it.

• Koliko vode? = How much water?
• Koliko knjiga? = How many books?
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