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Questions & Answers about Imam nekoliko pitanja.
What does each word in Imam nekoliko pitanja do?
- Imam = I have
- nekoliko = several / a few
- pitanja = questions
So the structure is very straightforward: I have + several + questions.
What form is imam?
Imam is the 1st person singular present tense of the verb imati (to have).
A few present-tense forms of imati are:
- ja imam = I have
- ti imaš = you have
- on/ona/ono ima = he/she/it has
- mi imamo = we have
- vi imate = you plural/formal have
- oni/one/ona imaju = they have
In this sentence, imam already tells you the subject is I, so ja is not necessary.
Why is there no word for I? Shouldn’t it be Ja imam nekoliko pitanja?
In Serbian, subject pronouns are often omitted because the verb ending already shows who the subject is.
So:
- Imam nekoliko pitanja. = normal, natural
- Ja imam nekoliko pitanja. = also correct, but ja adds emphasis, something like