Comparisons
The se that isn't always there: reflexive verbs that don't match Russian's -sya
Serbian marks a reflexive verb with a free-standing се instead of a suffix, and most of the time it lines up with Russian's -ся closely enough to stop thinking about it. It is the exceptions - a handful of everyday verbs reflexive in one language and plain in the other - that make a fluent-sounding sentence suddenly wrong.
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