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Ivana_NS profile picture Ivana_NSDecember 2022
Serbian has more tenses in past (aorist, perfekat, imperfekat, pluskvamperfekat) but we usually use only perfekat.

čitati (to read)
ja sam čitao (m)/ čitala (f)
ti si čitao/ čitala
on je čitao
ona je čitala
ono je čitalo

mi smo čitali/ čitale
vi ste čitali/ čitale
oni su čitali
one su čitale
ona su čitala

So, you need the auxiliary verb- jesam (sam, si, je, smo, ste, su) and ”glagolski pridev radni” (čitao, čitala, čitalo, čitali, čitale, čitala).

If you want to make a difference between Past Simple and Past Continuous, you will need a perfective or imperfective form of a verb.

čitati- imperfective form of the verb to read
pročitati- perfective form of the verb to read