(oblig. for masc.): | (literally, "The book is Maria's.") or ("It is Maria's book.")colloq. for fem. (oblig. for masc.):|- | Macedonian | [] | [] |- | rowspan="2" | Greek | [] or[] | [] |- | []'I gave it to her.' | []'It is her book.' |} Syncretism of locative and directional expressions Note: In Romanian this is an exception, and it only applies when referring to individual countries, e.g. , , etc. The rule is that into translates as ”” when trying to express destination, e.g. , , , , etc but even in this case the same preposition is used to express direction and location. Verb tenses Future tense The future tense is formed in an analytic way using an auxiliary verb or particle with the meaning "will, want", referred to as de-volitive, similar to the way the future is formed in English. This feature is present to varying degrees in each language. Decategorization is less advanced in fossilized literary Romanian and in Serbo-Croatian , where the future marker is still an inflected auxiliary. In modern Greek, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Albanian, Aromanian, and spoken Romanian, decategorization and erosion have given rise to an uninflected tense form, where the frozen third-person singular of the verb has turned into an invariable particle followed by the main verb inflected for person (compare Rom 1.sg. , 2.sg. , 3.sg. > invariable > mod. ). Certain Torlakian dialects also have an invariant future tense marker in the form of the proclitic third-person-singular present form of the verb 'to want': () 'I will see', () "you will see", () 'he/she/it will see'. Analytic perfect tense The analytic perfect tense is formed in the Balkan languages with the verb "to have" and, usually, a past passive participle, similarly to the construction found in Germanic and other Romance languages: e.g. Romanian "I have promised", Albanian "I have promised". A somewhat less typical case of this is Greek, where the verb "to have" is followed by the so-called ('invariant form', historically the aorist infinitive): . However, a completely different construction is used in Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian, which have inherited from Common Slavic an analytic perfect formed with the verb "to be" and the past active participle: , (Bul.) / , (Ser.) - "I have promised" (lit. "I am having-promised"). On the other hand, Macedonian, the third Slavic language in the sprachbund, is like Romanian and Albanian