Slovene language

Slovene is the westernmost language in the south Slav branch of the Slavic languages group. It is spoken by the Slovenes that live in Slovenia, plus the Slovenes in Beneska Slovenia in Italy and in Koruska Slovenia in Austria. It is one of the Slavic languages that preserved the dual number (like the upper and lower Sorbian language) and it has a very difficult case system.

This language was for a very long time a secondary language, the language of folk masses in Slovenia in the period of the Austro-Hungarian empire, when the German language had primacy.

When the Slovenes gained a national consciousness at the beginning of the 17th century and especially in the 19th century.

France Presern is one of the first modern poets of Slovene literature.

The Future Tense In the Slovene language the future tense is made by the verb to be in future tense plus the past participle of the verb

for example: Singular Plural Dual

 Jaz bom video Pl.    Mi bomo videli       Bova videla
   Ti bos video      Vi boste videli       Bosta videla 
   On bo video       Oni bodo videli       Bosta videla  

Singular	Plural	Dual
Jaz bom video	Mi bomo videli	Bosta videli
Ti bos video	Vi boste videli
On bo video	Oni bodo videli

Not only does it have singular and plural but also dual, which is rendered in English using the word both

Dual is a feature of the Old Slavonic language and from the Old Slavonic language the dual has been transmitted to Slovene. It is a number like singular and plural but it is only used for two subjects and objects, we have

   Oni sta (Both of them are -- two objects or subjects)     
   Oni so  (All of them are -- more than two objects or subjects)