How Serbian works, where it came from, and what is worth knowing about it before the first lesson.
„Радићу.“ and „Ја ћу радити.“ mean exactly the same thing, and both are completely correct - a fact that trips up learners who assume one of them has to be a mistake. The real trap sits one step further: a word order that looks like a natural blend of the two and is neither.
Neither Serbian nor Russian kept a single inherited future-tense form from Common Slavic - both had to solve the same missing piece some other way. Serbian's solution is one auxiliary that works on every verb regardless of aspect. Russian's solution is not a solution at all in the same sense: it split the job in two and let the aspect system itself do most of the work. A Russian speaker's instinct to let aspect decide the construction is exactly right at home and exactly wrong in Serbian.
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