Serbian Cases Advantage
Every language has a sentence structure. A structure can be SVO (subject-verb-object) or VSO (verb-subject-object) or OVS (object-verb-subject) , SOV (subject-object-verb), VSO (verb-subject-object), VOS (verb-object-subject)
The English language uses SVO. For example: “I am eating an apple.”
The Cebuano language uses VSO. For example: “Nagkaon ko og mansanas”
but Serbian can use all of these structures. Thanks to Cases!
SVO - Ja jedem jabuku. (I am eating an apple)
VSO - Jedem ja jabuku. (Eating I an apple)
OVS - Jabuku jedem ja. (An apple eating I)
SOV - Ja jabuku jedem. (I an apple eating)
VSO - Jedem ja jabuku. (Eating I an apple)
VOS - Jedem jabuku ja. (Eating an apple I)
All of these translated as “I am eating an apple”. Some sentences may sound weird, but if someone talks about it, they already know the meaning.
The truth. In everyday speech, we will mostly encounter the construction: I eat an apple. (subject---predicate---object) And all the others are grammatically correct, so you won't make a mistake if you use them. The only thing is that it will happen a little less often. I have mostly encountered such constructions in some literary works, mostly in songs.
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