UNDER CONSTRUCTION
This chapter will introduce various common ways to start a sentence, both in speech and in writing.
Let’s first check the particle zar. It’s used to start a yes/no question which, we think, have a negative answer. This is used mostly in writing and formal speech:
Zar je sve takvo? Is everything really like that?
This is more common in writing. In speech, baš and stvarno really are more common, but they aren’t fixed to the first position.
Then, there are several words and short phrases used to change a topic or somehow break the sequence of sentences:
dakle therefore inače ... međutim however |
naravno of course osim toga besides zapravo actually |
These words and phrases are normally separated by comma from the rest of the sentence:
Zapravo, ... . Actually, ... .
(the rest is coming soon)

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ReplyDeleteI'm grateful on your patience.
DeleteHi, I always see the word "ipak" and it seems it has so many different meanings. Do you have a good way of explaining what it means in English?
ReplyDeleteI'd say it's nevetheless and however. It simply means something doesn't follow from previously said, something is unexpected...
DeleteI'll work on this chapter.
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Sorry: nevertheless.
DeleteThis is the perfect lesson I need before my speaking test. ))
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