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Questions & Answers about Oboje radimo ovde.
What does oboje mean in this sentence?
Oboje means both, specifically referring to two people together.
In Oboje radimo ovde, it means both of us work here.
A useful point: oboje is commonly used for:
- two people of different genders
- two people considered together as a pair
- sometimes simply the two of us, without focusing heavily on gender
It is different from forms like oba or obe, which agree more directly with nouns.
Why is the verb radimo used here?
Radimo is the 1st person plural form of raditi (to work), so it means we work.
That is why the sentence means:
- we work here and with oboje added:
- both of us work here
So the structure is basically:
- oboje = both of us
- radimo = we work
- ovde = here
Why isn’t the pronoun mi included?
In Serbian, subject pronouns are often omitted because the verb ending already shows the person and number.
Since radimo already means we work, adding mi is not necessary.