Lesson 153 · Part 11

Lesson 153. The order of clitics among themselves

When several clitics appear together, their order is strictly fixed:

Dao mi ga je. (Дао ми га је.)
— He gave it to me.

Breakdown: dao (1st word) → mi (dat.) → ga (acc.) → je (at the end).

Ne bih ti to rekao. (Не бих ти то рекао.)
— I wouldn't tell you that.

bih → ti → to (not a clitic, this is the full form) → rekao. to is a full form, so it’s not in the clitic chain.

Hoće li mu je dati? (Хоће ли му је дати?)
— Will he give it to her?