conjunction
naime
namely
а именно, дело в том
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.
Discourse connectorsNaime, 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
Next to it in the phrasebook
- òdnosnothat is, i.e.; or; respectively (neutral-formal, very frequent in…
- u svȁkom slȕčajuin any case
- bùdūći dasince, given that (formal/written; opens a clause, usually…
- s òbzirom na tȏgiven this, in view of that (neutral-formal); before a clause s…
- ukolìkōif, provided that (formal/written variant of ako); not 'insofar as'
- s jèdnē stráneon the one hand (neutral; pairs with s druge strane)
- nȁprotīvon the contrary
- štàvišemoreover, what is more (written-neutral; escalates the previous point)
- drȕgim réčimain other words
- dodúšēadmittedly, though (concessive; neutral, common in speech too)