By Bus, With a Friend
Serbian learning path · Unit 3 of 6
Moving Around
Lesson 28 of 63: By Bus, With a Friend · A1
Инструментал — аутобусом, са сестром — means and company.
By means of
Transport and tools use the instrumental without a preposition: аутобусом, возом, трамвајем, ножем.
Идем на посао тролејбусом.
I go to work by trolleybus.
With company
For people and company, add са: са сестром, са Марком, са пријатељима.
Путујем са сестром.
I'm travelling with my sister.
Core endings
Masculine and neuter usually take -ом/-ем; feminine -а becomes -ом: градом, морем, женом.
разговарам са професором
I'm talking with the professor.
ким? чим?
Ask ким? for a person and чим? for a thing or means: С ким идеш? Чим путујеш?
Чим путујеш? — Возом.
How are you travelling? — By train.
Put It Together
Keep the lesson goal in view: аутобусом, са сестром — means and company. Revisit the examples, then test yourself in practice.