"Ta zupa i tamta zupa"
Translation:This soup and that soup
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Is the audio for this sentence good? It sounds so artificial, with loose words just glued together.
I'm having a little trouble with understanding the grammatical inflections here. I wrote "Ta zupa i tamta zupę" as I thought that "zupa" took "ę" as the object of a sentence. I would appreciate any clarification.
Yes, "zupę" would be for the direct object, but this is not even a sentence. These are just two noun phrases listed.
In german its basically the same i cant think of a way differerentiating ta of tamta in this sentence is the distance?
Yes. "ta" is "this" and "tamta" is "that", or even 'that one over there'.
You're right, but "jene" is gradually falling out of use. Especially younger speakers might not have it in their active vocabulary.
I don't understand... what is the difference between "ta" and "tamta" ? Maybe it's because I'm french and i don't see the difference between "this" and "that" ...
"ta zupa" is closer to me than "tamta zupa". You stand by the table, there is some soup at the table (ta zupa) and at another table 5 metres from you (tamta zupa).
See Jellei's response to pawlo18, or Jellei's response to RidleyRoid, or JerryMcCarthy99's response to George215793.
In this very thread.
If u then still have this question, am more than happy to answer and explain further
Can you say "Ta i tamta zupa?" in this case? Saying soup twice in a short sentence sounds a bit of a mouthful.
Yes, it works here. Well, it's not a very probable thing to say anyway, it just shows you the contrast between 'this' and 'that'.
Why "tamta zupa" and not "tamtą zupę" like in all other sentences in this lesson?
"tamta zupa" is Nominative, so it is used mostly for the subject of the sentence. This here is not even a sentence, so by default it uses Nominative.
"tamtą zupę" is Accusative, used for the direct object. Like in "We are eating that soup" = "Jemy tamtą zupę".
So... your native Serbian is a Slavic language, doesn't it have cases? How would you say "That soup is tasty" and "We are eating that soup"?
Yes, it has 7 cases, although being that its my native i speak it without thinking about it.
"That soup is tasty" would be "Ta supa je ukusna" "We are eating that soup" would be "Mi jedemo tu supu"
Thanks for clarification either way.
Can I say to zupa i tamto zupa? I still got confuse on when to use tamtą, tamten and tamto.
No; "ta" and "tamta" have to be that way to agree with the feminine gender of "zupa".
Yes @JerryMcCarthy99, zupa ends in a so it is ta zupa i tamta zupa. To and tamto works on words like dziecko
