Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: Macedonian Pronunciation and the Macedonian Alphabet
1.1: The Macedonian alphabet
1.2: Notes on the alphabet and pronunciation
1.3: Stress
1.4: Cognates
1.5: Alphabetical order
1.6: Writing Macedonian
2: Introductions; Occupations
2.1: Subject pronouns
2.2: The present tense of verbs, introduction
2.3: The present tense of the verb 'to be'
2.4: Gender of nouns
2.5: Interrogatives
2.6: Conjunctions
3: Actions and Attributes
3.1: Plural of masculine and feminine nouns
3.2: Adjectives
3.3: Plural of adjectives
3.4: Present tense of verbs
3.5: Negation of verbs
3.6: нма/нема
3.7: Numbers 1-20
4: Daily Routines
4.1: Adverbs, introduction
4.2: Plural of neuter nouns
4.3: Quantitative plural
4.4: Demonstrative adjectives
4.5: Definite articles
4.6: Definite direct objects and clitics
4.7: Possession
4.8: Conjunctions
5: Food
5.1: Definiteness of adjective plus noun phrases
5.2: Direct object pronouns, continued
5.3: Prepositions with personal pronouns
5.4: Introduction to Да constructions
5.5: The invariant verb може in да constructions seeking permission
5.6: во vs. на
5.7: Forms of 'whose'
5.8: Conjunctions и . . . и, или . . . или, ни . . . ни
6: Music
6.1: Indirect objects
6.2: Indirect and direct object clitics
6.3: Uses of на
6.4: Verbal aspect
6.5: Future constructions
6.6: Future tense of сум
6.7: Subordination with дека
6.8: Relative clauses, introduction
7: Cities, Giving directions, Skopje, Free time
7.1: Comparatives and superlatives
7.2: Possessive pronominal adjectives
7.3: Embedded questions and indirect questions
7.4: Imperatives
7.5: Auxiliary verb треба
7.6: Numbers from 0-100
7.7: Telling time, introduction
8.: Education, invitations
8.1: Aorist, introduction
8.2: Days of the week
8.3: Telling time, continued
8.4: Review of subordinate clauses
8.5: Relative clauses, continued
8.6: Intransitive verbs with се
9: Vacations, birthdays, and other celebrations
9.1: Aorist, continued
9.2: Introduction to verbal nouns
9.3: Hundreds, thousands, millions, billions
9.4: Numbers designating male human beings and mixed gender groups
9.5: Months of the year
9.6: Ordinal numbers
9.7: Dates
9.8: Verb of liking
9.9: Order of clitics, review
9.10: Diminutives, introduction
9.11: Vocative, introduction
10: Weather
10.1: Imperfect, introduction
10.2: Proximate and distance forms of the definite article
10.3: Interrogatives, pronominal adjectives, and adverbs of quantity and quality
10.4: Impersonal constructions, introduction
10.5: Imperatives continued: да and нека constructions
11: Appearance, character
11.1: Colors, clothing, relatives
11.2: Expectative conditionals
11.3: Perfective imperfect and future-in-the-past
11.4: Indirect speech, introduction
11.5: Verbal nouns, continued
11.6: Verbal adverbs
11.7: Word Formation
12.: Health
12.1: Verbal 1-forms and formation of the 1-past
12.2: Approximate numbers
12.3: The emphatic verb нејќе
12.4: Compound conjunctions: без да, за да, пред да
12.5: The conjunction штом
12.6: Verbal prefix по- and the verbs of ‘lying,’ ‘sitting,’ ‘standing’
12.7: Aorist, continued
12.8: Reflexive verbs, continued
13: Housing
13.1: Comparisons continued and the prefix пре-
13.2: Hypothetical constructions with би
13.3: Overview of conditionals
13.4: Admirative and dubitative: other uss of the verbal 1-forms
13.5: Indirect speech, continued
13.6: Suppositional or reported forms of perfective imperfect constructions
13.7: The use of треба with nominal subject
13.8: Optatives
14: Geography of Macedonia, Travel
14.1: Verbal adjectives
14.2: Word order
14.3: Passive constructions with се
14.4: Conjunctions дури (да, не), додека (да, не)
15: Wedding customs; Sports; Arts
15.1: Има perfects, introduction
15.2: Dependent form of masculine personal names
15.3: Aspect distinctions and imperfective derivation
15.4: Introduction to verbal prefixes
15.5: Prefixes for 'some', 'no-'; 'every-', e.g. 'someone, no one, everyone'
15.6: Indefinite pronouns meaning 'any-', e.g. 'anyone, anywhere'
15.7: The conjunction како да, 'as if'
16: Cultural sites in Macedonia
16.1: Pluperfects
16.2: Constructions with имал plus verbal adjective
16.3: Diminutives, continued
16.4: Review of prepositions
16.5: Collective plurals
16.6: Suffixes in word formation, cont.
Glossary of Basic Grammatical Terminology
Appendix—Grammatical Summaries
Introduction to the Glossary
Macedonian-English Glossary
English-Macedonian Glossary
Index
