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Guided lesson A1 9 activities

Traps with имати

Four slips that turn a correct sentence with имати into a wrong one: leaving the thing you have in its dictionary form, leaving the missing thing after impersonal нема in its plain form instead of shifting it into the genitive, calquing a possessor construction word for word instead of a plain transitive sentence, and conjugating the verb off its wrong stem. Ten minutes of building the right version and picking it out from three wrong ones - the last of the unit's grammar lessons, right before the traveller who checks their bag for real.

The rule
Glagol „imati“ - prezent

The part of the grammar page this lesson drills — read it here, then use it.

Affirmative present

Remove -ти and add the regular -ам endings. Ask a yes/no question with ли after the verb: Имаш ли…?

Age and the impersonal нема

Give your age with имати: Ја имам двадесет година means ‘I am twenty years old.’

Impersonal нема means ‘there is/are no…’: Нема проблема. The noun is genitive; learn this common pattern as a whole for now.

Affirmative present form
PersonSingularPlural
1. imam imamo
2. imaš imate
3. ima imaju
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