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Our second Drag & Drop exercise, also authored by Nataša Spasić, from the University of Kragujevac, deals with the imperative mode. By dragging and dropping verb forms into blank spaces within a sentence, you will test – and undoubtedly improve – your knowledge of Serbian conjugation !

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What are they doing ? or Šta oni rade ? is the eighth SerboVerb exercise, authored by Nataša Spasić, our new contributor, from the University of Kragujevac. By dragging and dropping the pins to their correct place on the image, you will learn some basic Serbian verbs in Present tense !

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The seventh SerboVerb quiz is a fill-in-the-gaps exercise. In this quiz, you must listen to a mix of songs nice to hear and fill the blanks in ten questions, by recognizing a series of verb forms used by the singer !

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The sixth SerboVerb quiz deals, as our Quizzes n°3 and 5, with the distinction between perfective and imperfective aspect. As in the Quiz n°5, only the second person singular of the perfect tense is used, but this time with agreement in the feminine gender. The same aspectual pairs as in the Quiz n° 5 are used!

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The fifth SerboVerb quiz is devoted, as our Quiz n°3, to the distinction between perfective and imperfective aspect, but it is a little bit simpler: only the second person of the perfect tense and the masculine singular are used. In this SerboVerb quiz, you will also learn a series of aspectual pairs.

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This SerboVerb quiz, authored by our new collaborator Blaženka Trivunčić – head of Serbian School in France, Italy, Slovenia and Malta, deals with imperative mode. The quiz is conceived as a very rich material package so that you will find a Jovan Jovanović Zmaj’s poem, a corresponding song, a series of exercices, many lessons, and even more. We are sure that you will enjoy it.

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The third SerboVerb quiz is devoted to the distinction between perfective and imperfective aspect, which is one of the main difficulties in learning Serbian conjugation. In this SerboVerb quiz you will learn a series of aspectual pairs.

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The second SerboVerb quiz mainly deals with subject-verb agreement. Within any clause with a verb, the subject and verb must agree in person (first, second, or third) and number (singular or plural). This quiz consists of ten fill-in-the gap exercises !

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This is the first SerboVerb quiz. The quiz consists of ten questions about a series of verbs that you will discover in a funny song!

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Serbian verbs change their forms. This change follows certain criteria and it is called conjugation or verbal inflection. In this post you will find the main features that affect the formation of Serbian verb forms. 

When conjugated, the verb is the main element of a sentence. Its typical purpose is to situate an action, process or state in time, and to provide information on the subject of that action, process or state. 

Each Serbian verb form can carry some of the following information: 

•  person: whether the subject of the verb is the speaker, the interlocutor, or the person or thing spoken about. 

•  number: whether the verb is in the singular or the plural, e.g. whether the subject is the ‘I’ form or the ‘we’ form. 

•  gender: whether the verb is in the masculine, the feminine or the neuter form. •  tense: whether the verb indicates the present, past or future. 

•  mood: whether the verb expresses a statement, a command, a hypothesis or a possibility. 

•  voice: whether the verb indicates that the subject performs or undergoes the action. 

•  affirmation or negation

All Serbian verbs are marked for aspect (whether the verb indicates that duration of a state, action or process is bounded or not).