Veterinar ima vakcinu i sutra će vakcinisati psa.

to have

Breakdown of Veterinar ima vakcinu i sutra će vakcinisati psa.

• i: and
• pas: dog
• sutra: tomorrow

Questions & Answers about Veterinar ima vakcinu i sutra će vakcinisati psa.

Why is there no word for the or a in this sentence?

Serbian does not use articles the way English does. So veterinar can mean the veterinarian, a veterinarian, or just veterinarian, depending on context. The same is true for vakcinu and psa.

In this sentence, English would usually translate it with the: The veterinarian has the vaccine and will vaccinate the dog tomorrow, but Serbian leaves that unstated.

What case is veterinar, and why does it stay in that form?

Veterinar is in the nominative singular, because it is the subject of the sentence: the veterinarian is the one doing the actions.

The two actions are:

• ima = has
• će vakcinisati = will vaccinate

So veterinar is the subject for both verbs.

What does ima mean exactly, and why is there no separate word for he/she?

Ima is the 3rd person singular present tense of imati = to have.

So veterinar ima vakcinu means the veterinarian has the vaccine.

There is no separate word for he or she because Serbian often omits subject pronouns when the subject is already clear. Here, the noun already tells us who is doing the action, so adding would be unnecessary.