Numerals

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Numerals

Postby Roxannah » 2010-09-15, 3:37

Hi guys!

Do you know any good websites that explain the cases and sentence formation concerning numerals? 2-3-4 and 5+.

Thanks :)

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Re: Numerals

Postby voron » 2010-09-16, 12:13

I know only of offline resources (grammar books) that discuss this question.

If we limit ourselves to cardinal numerals only, they are way easier in Serbian than in other Slavic languages. Let me summarize the rules (following Ivan Klajn's "Gramatika srpskog jezika").

With 2-3-4, you use:
- nouns, adjectives, l-participles in paucal*,
- verbs in plural

Dve lepe devojke su došle/Dva lepa momka su došla.
Dve nove knjige nedostaju/Dva nova kofera nedostaju.


With 5+, you use:
- nouns, adjectives in genitive plural
- l-participles in singular neuter
- verbs in singular

Pet lepih devojaka/momaka je došlo.
Pet novih kofera nedostaje.


The numeral and dependent words remain unchanged when they are in an oblique case:
Došao sam kući sa pet novih kofera.

2,3,4 do have other case forms, but they are rarely used.

* Paucal is identical with genitive singular for masculine and neuter gender, and nominative plural for feminine, except that adjectives and l-participles take -a (instead of -og) ending for masculine and neuter.

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Re: Numerals

Postby Mancko » 2010-09-16, 21:10

I'd send you shamelessly to my site: How to count in Serbian, and more specifically to the first paragraph (A short overview of Serbian declension).
It's a compilation made from the links listed at the bottom of the page, and some help from visitors.

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Re: Numerals

Postby Grytolle » 2011-05-25, 14:45

voron wrote:* Paucal is identical with genitive singular for masculine and neuter gender, and nominative plural for feminine, except that adjectives and l-participles take -a (instead of -og) ending for masculine and neuter.
And that the endings are always short: -e instead of -ē


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