Autobus ide kroz grad.

The bus goes through the city.

Breakdown of Autobus ide kroz grad.

• grad: city
• ići: to go
• autobus: bus
• kroz: through

Questions & Answers about Autobus ide kroz grad.

Why is there no word for the in Autobus ide kroz grad?

Serbian has no articles, so there is no separate word for a/an/the.

So autobus can mean:

• a bus
• the bus

And grad can mean:

• a city / a town
• the city / the town

Which one is meant depends on the context.

Why is it ide, and what verb is that?

Ide is the 3rd person singular present tense form of the verb ići, which means to go.

Because the subject is autobus (bus), which is singular, Serbian uses ide:

• ja idem = I go / am going
• ti ideš = you go / are going
• on/ona/ono ide = he/she/it goes / is going

Here autobus ide literally means the bus goes or the bus is going.

Does ide specifically mean that the bus is walking? How can a bus go?

No. In Serbian, ići is used much more broadly than English to walk. It simply means to go / to move / to travel.

So autobus ide is completely natural and can mean things like: