Stanar će mesečno platiti kiriju.

will

Breakdown of Stanar će mesečno platiti kiriju.

• platiti: to pay
• kirija: rent payment
• stanar: tenant

Questions & Answers about Stanar će mesečno platiti kiriju.

What does stanar mean grammatically in this sentence?

Stanar is a masculine singular noun meaning tenant. In this sentence, it is in the nominative case because it is the subject of the verb — the person who will do the action.

Its basic dictionary form is also stanar.

How is the future tense formed in će mesečno platiti?

This is the future I tense in Serbian.

It is formed with:

• a form of hteti (ću, ćeš, će, ćemo, ćete, će)
• plus the infinitive of the main verb

So here:

• će = will / third person singular future auxiliary
• platiti = infinitive, to pay

Together, će platiti = will pay.

Why is it će platiti, not platiće?

Both patterns exist in Serbian, but they are used a little differently in structure.

You can say:

• Stanar će platiti kiriju.
• Stanar platiće kiriju. — this sounds unusual in modern standard usage
• Platiće kiriju. — very common when the auxiliary is attached to the verb

In normal modern Serbian, when the subject or some other word comes first, the most natural pattern is: