Personal pronouns: long and short forms

In the genitive, dative and accusative, each pronoun has a long (stressed) form and a short form (a clitic, in 2nd position).

Long form: after a preposition, for emphasis or contrast, on its own or at the start of a sentence. Short form: everywhere else.

• Vidim te. — I see you. / Tebe vidim, ne njega. — It's you I see, not him.
• Idi sa mnom. — Come with me. Mislim na tebe. — I'm thinking of you. Kod njega. — At his place.
• Meni se sviđa, a tebi? — I like it, what about you?

Subject pronouns (ja, ti, on…) are usually dropped, because the verb ending is enough: Radim — I work.

Polite “you”: use Vi (2nd person plural, capitalised in a letter). The participle goes into the plural: Jeste li bili u Sarajevu? — Have you been to Sarajevo?

ko / šta (tko / što) are declined too: ko, koga, kome, koga, s kim, o kome; šta, čega, čemu, šta, čim, o čemu. S kim razgovaraš? — Who are you talking to?