Da li me čujete?

Da li is a very common way to turn a statement into a yes/no question in Serbian.

• Čujete me. = You hear me.
• Da li me čujete? = Do you hear me? / Can you hear me?

English uses do in questions, but Serbian often uses da li instead.

Serbian often omits subject pronouns because the verb ending already shows who the subject is.

In čujete, the ending -te tells you the subject is you plural or formal you singular.

So Da li me čujete? already includes the idea of you, even without vi.

You can add vi for emphasis:

Da li me vi čujete?

That sounds more emphatic, something like Do you hear me?

Čujete is the present-tense form of čuti, meaning to hear.

More specifically, it is the 2nd person plural form, which is also used for formal singular.

So:

• čuješ = you hear when speaking to one person informally
• čujete = you hear when speaking to several people, or to one person formally

It can mean either one.

Serbian uses the same form for:

• you all
• you when speaking politely to one person

So only the context tells you whether the speaker is addressing:

• one person formally, or
• more than one person

Because me is the correct object form here.

• ja = I as the subject
• me = me as an unstressed object
• mene = me as a stressed or emphatic form

Since čuti takes a direct object, Serbian uses me here:

• Da li me čujete? = Do you hear me?

You would use ja only as a subject:

• Ja vas čujem. = I hear you.

And mene is usually used for emphasis:

• Da li mene čujete? = Do you hear me? with extra emphasis on me

Because me is a short unstressed pronoun, often called a clitic. In Serbian, clitics usually appear very early in the sentence.

So Da li me čujete? is the normal order.

This is one of those patterns that may feel unusual to an English speaker, because English normally puts me after the verb, but Serbian often places these short pronouns earlier.

A very common alternative is:

Čujete li me?

That is also standard Serbian.

It can mean both, depending on context.

In many real situations, especially on the phone or during a video call, Da li me čujete? is best understood as:

Can you hear me?

But grammatically, it is literally closer to:

Do you hear me?

Serbian often uses the simple present where English naturally says can.

Because Serbian does not always need one in this kind of sentence.

With verbs like hear, the plain present tense often already implies ability in context.

So:

• Da li me čujete? = very natural for Can you hear me?

If you want to make the idea of ability more explicit, you can say:

Da li možete da me čujete?

That is closer to Are you able to hear me? or Can you hear me?

This is an important difference:

• čuti = to hear
• slušati = to listen

So:

• Da li me čujete? asks whether the sound is reaching you
• Da li me slušate? asks whether you are listening to me

In English, this is the same difference as hear versus listen.

You would say:

Da li me čuješ?

That is the ti form, used with one person informally.

So the contrast is:

• Da li me čuješ? = informal singular
• Da li me čujete? = plural or formal singular

Yes. Some common alternatives are:

• Čujete li me? — standard and very natural
• Da li me čujete? — also standard and very common
• Je l’ me čujete? — more conversational and colloquial
• Da li možete da me čujete? — more explicit, with the idea of can

All of these can be heard in everyday Serbian.

A rough English-style pronunciation is:

da lee meh CHOO-yeh-teh?

A few useful sound notes:

• č sounds like ch in church
• j sounds like y in yes
• čujete has three parts: ču-je-te

So:

Da li me čujete?
≈ da lee meh CHOO-yeh-teh?