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Nominativ

The starting point of every noun. The nominative is the base form — how words appear in dictionaries — and it marks the subject of the sentence: the person or thing performing the action.

Case 1Nominativ

Nominative

Ko? / Tko?Who?Šta? / Što?What?

Used for

  • The subject of the sentence — the person or thing doing the action
  • Saying what or who something is (with the verb 'to be')
  • This is the dictionary form — how you find a word in a dictionary

Examples

On je student.

He is a student.

Ona je učiteljica.

She is a teacher.

Pas spava.

The dog is sleeping.

Noun endings

GenderSingularPlural
Masculine– / -o / -e-i
Feminine-a-e
Neuter-o / -e-a

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