Questions & Answers about Stanar će platiti depozit danas.
Why is će used here?
Će is the 3rd person singular future-tense auxiliary in Serbian. It comes from the verb hteti (to want) and is used to build the future tense.
So:
- stanar = subject
- će = will
- platiti = pay
Together, će platiti means will pay.
Why is the verb platiti, and not a changed form like plaća or plati?
In this sentence, Serbian forms the future with:
- a form of hteti → će
- plus the infinitive → platiti
So će platiti = will pay.
The infinitive is the basic dictionary form of the verb. That is very normal in Serbian future tense.
Why is platiti used instead of plaćati?
This is about verb aspect, which is very important in Serbian.
- platiti is perfective: it means to pay something as a completed action
- plaćati is imperfective: it suggests an ongoing, repeated, or habitual action
In this sentence, the idea is one complete future action: the tenant will make the payment. So platiti is the natural choice.