Past Perfect Progressive Exercises For Serbian Grammar

Interactive grammar tasks for language mastery

Past Perfect Progressive or ‘Trajni preterit’ in Serbian is used to express an action that was ongoing in the past before another past action. It is formed by using the auxiliary verb ‘biti’ conjugated in the imperfective past perfect tense together with the past participle of the main verb.

Exercise 1: Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the Past Perfect Progressive tense in Serbian.

1. Ona *je veฤ‡ kupovala* (was already buying) hleb, kad sam stigao u prodavnicu.
2. Ja *sam ฤitao* (was reading) knjigu, dok si ti spavao.
3. Mi *smo gledali* (were watching) film, dok je kiลกa padala.
4. Oni *su pevali* (were singing) dok smo mi svirali.
5. Ti *si uฤio* (were learning) srpski, kad sam te video u biblioteci.
6. Moja majka *je spremala* (was preparing) veฤeru, dok sam ja pisao zadaฤ‡u.
7. Vi *ste igrali* (were playing) fudbal, dok je sunce sijalo.
8. Ja *sam radio* (was working) na projektu, dok su oni proslavljali.
9. Oni *su veลพbali* (were exercising) dok sam ja odmarao.
10. Ona *je slikala* (was painting) pejzaลพ, dok je sunce zalazilo.
11. Ti *si kuvala* (were cooking) supu, dok je voda kljuฤala.
12. Moji roditelji *su priฤali* (were talking) sa uฤiteljem, dok sam ja ฤekao ispred.
13. Mi *smo ฤekali* (were waiting) autobus, dok je sneg padao.
14. Ja *sam sluลกao* (was listening) muziku, dok su oni igrali ลกah.
15. Oni *su radili* (were working) na baลกti, dok je vetrovito bilo.

Exercise 2: Fill in the blanks with the appropriate auxiliary verb (jesam, jesi, jeste, smo, ste, su) for the Past Perfect Progressive tense.

1. Ona *je* plakala (was crying), dok sam ja otiลกao.
2. Ti *si* pisao (were writing) pesmu, dok je ona pevala.
3. Oni *su* igrali (were playing) koลกarku, dok su mi roditelji gledali.
4. Vi *ste* veลพbali (were practicing) srpsku gramatiku, dok je predavaฤ predavao.
5. Mi *smo* plivale (were swimming), dok su oni sunฤali.
6. On *je* imao sastanak (was having a meeting) dok sam ja spavao.
7. Ti *si* ฤitala (were reading) magazin, dok je on gledao televiziju.
8. Mi *smo* stajali (were standing), dok su oni sjedili.
9. Vi *ste* leลพale (were lying) na plaลพi, dok je puhao vetar.
10. Oni *su* gledali (were watching) utakmicu, dok ja nisam bio kod kuฤ‡e.
11. Ti *si* kuvao (were cooking), dok je ona postavljala sto.
12. Ja *sam* uฤio (was studying), dok su oni zabavljali.
13. Ona *je* pisala (was writing) dok su oni spavali.
14. Mi *smo* vozili bicikl (were riding bikes), dok je ona trฤala.
15. Ti *si* pekao (were baking) kolaฤ, dok je voda kljuฤala.

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