conjunction
naime
the thing is, you see
«дело в том, что»; видите ли
With stress
nàime
In Cyrillic
наиме
Examples from the lessons
Ne baš. Naime, tamo se grejanje plaća posebno.
Не совсем. Дело в том, что там отопление оплачивается отдельно.
Linking wordsNaime, rok se računa od dana predaje, a ne od dana potpisa.
Дело в том, что срок считается со дня подачи, а не со дня подписи.
Mediation & relayingIn phrasebooks
Appears in lessons
Appears in immersion pieces
The hitchhiker who led to a cemetery · Philippi: How Cassius Ordered His Own Death
Next to it in the phrasebook
- òdnosnothat is, i.e.; or rather; respectively (frequent in documents)
- u svȁkom slȕčajuin any case
- bùdūći dasince, given that (formal; usually opens the sentence; in speech…
- s òbzirom na tȏgiven this, in view of that (neutral-formal); since (with da)
- ukolìkōif, provided that (formal; in speech usually ako); utoliko… ukoliko…
- s jèdnē stráneon the one hand (paired with ‘on the other hand’)
- nȁprotīvon the contrary
- štàvišemoreover, what is more (bookish; adds a stronger point)
- drȕgim réčimain other words
- dodúšēadmittedly, though (concessive)