Към социолингвистичната характеристика на една словообразувателна промяна

The article discusses the formative -ara, typical of the Serbo-Croatian word-formation system, from the point of view of its functional and semantic peculiarities and the distribution of this element observed in recent years in colloquial speech in SR Macedonia. Some differences are established in the functioning of this formative in the two word-formation systems influencing its productivity, semantics, normative evaluation, etc.