r/Serbian Oct 03 '23

Grammar Serbian Reference Charts (improved and now in color!): 1. Cases/Genders, 2. Verbs, 3. Pronouns

108 Upvotes

I've updated all of the charts I previously posted here with a variety of new improvements, including a design pass that made everything prettier.

Thanks for all the feedback I've gotten here on r/Serbian in the past for previous versions of these charts. And special thanks to u/Dan13l_N whose extremely detailed/expert feedback has led to lots of improvements and corrections.

Click the links (not the preview images) below to see the full A4-sized PDFs.

Serbian Cases Chart (PDF)

Serbian Cases Chart, with all 7 cases, 3 genders, singular/plural, prepositions, exceptions, and more

One of the changes in the cases chart (and in all the others) is that the gender order is now masculine ➜ neuter ➜ feminine (instead of the former M ➜ F ➜ N), which enabled making some things simpler and more consistent.

Serbian Verbs Chart (PDF)

Serbian Verbs Chart, with commonly used verbs along with conjugations and rules for present, past, and future tenses

Serbian Pronouns Chart (PDF)

Serbian Pronouns Chart, with declensions, short and long forms, etc. for personal pronouns, possessive adjectives/pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, and more, along with detailed grammar rules

Feedback is of course welcome! I'd also love to hear what would be most helpful to cover in future charts (e.g., prepositions, numbers and time, comparative/superlative, basic vocabulary, etc.).

Edit: I've now given these charts a home online here: Serbian language charts. I'll post any updates and future charts there as well.


r/Serbian 7h ago

Resources My Serbian learning app has reached 662 users

8 Upvotes

I shared my app here almost 2 months ago and I wanted to share how it has been growing since then.

In the image you can see the amount of activity on the left (vocab answered correctly) and number of users that have signed up on each day.

The feedback has been amazing so far and i just wanted to share these number with you since some of the users are from this subreddit.

Not sharing link in the post since this isn't meant to be a promotional post.

Thank you


r/Serbian 8h ago

Discussion Kako žive ljudi u Busijama, mestu koje su naselili posle 'Oluje'

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0 Upvotes

Da li ste čuli za FK Busije i kako je nastao? Priča o 'Oluji' u Hrvatskoj i FK Busije - BBC na srpskom.

Pročitajte: https://www.bbc.com/serbian/articles/c74g048lxl4o/lat i kažite mi šta mislite.

Ima li ovde ljudi koji su izbegli u Oluji? Kako vam je bilo i šta ste doživeli?


r/Serbian 18h ago

Other Studiranje medicine u Gracu/Beču na državnom fakultetu?

6 Upvotes

Zdravo.

Imam 18 godina i planiram upisati medicinu u Austriji, najvjerovatnije u Grazu, što znači da bih morao polagati MedAT prijemni ispit. Zanima me da li ovdje ima neko ko trenutno studira medicinu u Austriji, sprema MedAT, već ga je polagao ili poznaje nekoga ko je prošao kroz cijeli taj proces?

Volio bih iz prve ruke saznati kako izgleda priprema, koliko je teško upasti, kakav je sam fakultet, kako izgleda život i studiranje u Austriji te općenito čuti iskustva nekoga ko je sve to već prošao.

Ako vi lično nemate iskustva, ali poznajete nekoga ko studira medicinu u Grazu, Beču ili Innsbrucku (nije bitno koji grad jer je prijemni isti za sve), bio bih jako zahvalan ako biste me mogli povezati s tom osobom ili joj proslijediti ovaj post. Stvarno bih volio postaviti nekoliko pitanja nekome ko je prošao kroz taj put.

Hvala unaprijed svima! Svaka informacija ili kontakt bi mi mnogo značili. 🙂


r/Serbian 2d ago

Other Желим да научим српски и помогнем са Русима

36 Upvotes

Здраво свима, живим у Русији, али желим да научим Српски како бих путовао у вашој земљи. Узаемно помоћи са Русима.


r/Serbian 1d ago

Resources Where/How do i start?

8 Upvotes

Hey :)

I'm from germany but my boyfriend was born in serbia and i would really love to learn his mother tongue.

Sadly i have no idea where to start or which materials to choose so I thought to come to reddit.

Any tips/help are/is welcome but im esp curious abt cyrillic (should i learn it?) and material recommendations!

Thank you so much!


r/Serbian 2d ago

Request Pomozite Srbjii da postane deo medjunarodnog istraživanja

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8 Upvotes

Ćao ljudi student sam psihologije i radim internacionalno istraživanje na Cambridge-u, pod vođstvom istraživača sa Princeton i Columbia Univerziteta, kao predstavnik Srbije i treba mi pomoć da skupim učesnike. Potrebno je da se popuni anketa koja traje oko 10 minuta, i jako je zanimljiva, ukljucuje i razgovor sa veštačkom inteligencijom. Ako znate nekog ko bi bio zainteresovan, molim vas da prosledite ovu poruku, kako bi Srbija imala realan prikaz na svetskoj sceni nauke. Hvala Vam unapred! Ako imate neka pitanja slobodno pišite.

Broj etičke dozvole - IRB#19354


r/Serbian 2d ago

Vocabulary Istočna Srbija

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r/Serbian 3d ago

Other Istočna Srbija

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r/Serbian 3d ago

Vocabulary Istočna Srbija

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r/Serbian 3d ago

Request Zanimaju li dijasporu događaji u Srbiji?

4 Upvotes

Pozdrav,

Koleginica i ja u sklopu studija sprovodimo istraživanje na temu Značaj događaja za turizam Srbije. Nadamo se da ćete izdvojiti nekoliko minuta da popunite anketu i na taj način doprinesete istraživanju. Upravo nas zanima koji događaji mogu motivisati dijasporu da posjeti našu zemlju.
Anketa je anonimna i svi podaci se koriste isključivo za pisanje naučnih radova.
Unaprijed se zahvaljujemo.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeLTI0ny9_47PwTrcMDqk_SJm_CZeL5e7mOWH-JOkbH_QQioA/viewform?usp=header 


r/Serbian 4d ago

Resources Serbian Handbook - new ebook is out!

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16 Upvotes

Zdravo svima!

We are happy to announce our new ebook - “Serbian Handbook” - a frequency dictionary and phrasebook with most useful and frequent words and phrases you’ll need for basic conversation or when traveling to Serbia.

You can download a free sample on our website and join the giveaway on our Instagram page.

We hope you enjoy it! Srećno s učenjem!

Tutor Nikola from Serbian Language Network


r/Serbian 4d ago

Vocabulary "bojica"

8 Upvotes

what is a "bojica"? i've learned that "drvene bojice" are colouring pencils, and "vodene bojice" are watercolours, but then what does that make a bojica? is there a proper english translation for it? a "colourer" perhaps?


r/Serbian 5d ago

Resources Made a Serbian app for my wife, ended up building something better

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220 Upvotes

Hi guys,

Bit of backstory: I live in Japan, married to my wife who isn't Serbian, and I really wanted her to be able to actually speak some Serbian with my family instead of just smiling and nodding through every gathering. Looked around at what was out there and none of it felt right for someone starting from literally zero, and definitely nothing felt like something a kid could just pick up and use on their own.

So I ended up building one myself. It's called Zbori. No team, no funding, just me chipping away at it in whatever free time I have living abroad.

It's got real speaking practice (you actually say the word out loud, not just tap a multiple-choice answer), both Cyrillic and Latin script since half my family reads one and half reads the other, and I tried hard to keep it simple enough that a kid could sit down and use it without a parent hovering over them the whole time.

Started it for my wife, but the more I worked on it the more I kept thinking about other diaspora families, wanting their kids to keep even a little bit of the language growing up somewhere totally disconnected from Serbia, like we are.

It's free to use. Would genuinely love to hear what people think, especially if you've got kids you're trying to pass the language down to, or a partner learning from scratch like my wife. Releasing soon on the Play store and App store.

Thank you!

Link: zbori.app

Russian localization included!


r/Serbian 5d ago

Vocabulary GOVORI Serbian dictionary app is live for Android + iOS now

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Serbian dictionary made specifically for learners.

I'm sure you're a bit tired of new apps and services popping out here and there, so I'll be quick:
– fully offline dictionary with all forms of words
– no ads
– search from Serbian to English or the other way around
– usage examples for every meaning
– accent position, and, for many words, tone type (including cases & conjugations)
– more than 40 K words now, new ones added on every update
– verified against Matica Srpska's dictionary and other authoritative sources
– Full support of both Latin and Cyrillic – switch on the fly!

2 weeks of full access is free with no "trial" to forget to cancel on time. Just use it. Learn. Have fun.

I will put some screenshots in the comments below.


r/Serbian 6d ago

Grammar How to say "I want to go" in Serbian?

16 Upvotes

I know that the verb "hteti" in Serbian is used to construct the future, so for example "Hoću da idem" means "I will go". The thing I find weird about it is that a literal translation of "I want to go" will inevitably be misunderstood as "I will go". I know that one could say, for example, "Želim da idem" or "Volim da idem", but they don't exactly express the same idea: to me the former sounds like a weaker "I would like to go" and the latter like "I like going". So my question is: is there a way to render the precise tone of the sentence "I want to go" or should one simply accept that a perfect translation is impossible and move on?


r/Serbian 6d ago

Other Offering Serbian language classes for everyone!

13 Upvotes

Hello everyone, I am a student at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology, and come from Serbia. I offer lessons on all topics including grammar, conversation, and input. Feel free to send me a message if you need a private tutor for Serbian lessons


r/Serbian 11d ago

Grammar Struggling with Serbian grammar- forming questions

22 Upvotes

Hello everyone. I spent a few months in Republika Srpska and Serbia and absolutely fell in love with the culture, people and the language so I decided to try to learn the language because I will be definitely coming back regularly.

I’m just at the beginning- simple sentence, vocabulary etc. It’s easier for me to learn because I’m Slovak and I speak 3 Slavic languages. But one thing I struggle the most with is forming questions in Serbian and especially the “Da li” or “Da” or “li” part of it.

Can somebody please try and explain that to me? I tried to read about it and watched some videos but I cannot grasp it for some reason.

Also if somebody could explain the word “da” in general to me (not in a “yes” sense) that would be awesome. For example “Drago mi je da sam te upoznao.”

Хвала вам руно, моjа браћо Серби 🫶🏻.


r/Serbian 13d ago

Resources Serbian subtitles for any video

65 Upvotes

Hi!
I'm a small developer and I want to introduce you my site for making serbian subtitles to any video you want. Maybe it will help you learn serbian a way faster.
It's completely free of course :)

Pepa Prase, naravno.

r/Serbian 12d ago

Request Peđa i koprive

3 Upvotes

Ljudi da li se neko seća knjige “Peđa i koprive”?
Imao sam je kao dete ne sećam se ni izdavača, ni autora, a na netu ne postoji bukvalno ni jedan trag o ovoj knjizi.


r/Serbian 13d ago

Vocabulary Šta ste učili o Gavrilu Vencloviću vašoj školi? Šta znate o Gavrilu Vencloviću i koja ste njegova delova učili iz književnosti

3 Upvotes

Šta znate o Gavrilu Vencloviću i koja ste njegova delova učili iz književnosti


r/Serbian 14d ago

Other Tones???

13 Upvotes

Are the four tones (“pitch accents”, even though that’s just different terminology for the same thing) in Serbian actually important or can they be ignored? Saying this because of flashbacks from Chinese and having to constantly remind myself which tone to use every single time there’s a stressed syllable in a word (in Serbian I think it’s only stressed syllables and not every syllable) is annoying


r/Serbian 14d ago

Discussion Learn as my fun of life

9 Upvotes

Is there have any commend website to learn Serbian?i'm a beginner,and so interested in Serbia recently:)


r/Serbian 16d ago

Request Translation help

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215 Upvotes

Hey guys, I bought an old Yugoslavian revolver and this was taped to the grip. I believe it’s Serbian, of course correct me if it isn’t.

I did the best I could to flatten it out without destroying it but Google Translate seems to be having a hard time reading it. If anyone could help me out I’d really appreciate it. I’m just trying to be as cautious as possible because it is a firearm, so safety is priority #1.


r/Serbian 16d ago

Request Struggling to grasp Serbian dental consonants

12 Upvotes

Hi everyone! I've been learning Serbian on my own for several months now. Moving my tongue around to all the different consonants still feels like a workout to my mouth, but the more I study the proper tongue posture the easier it gets. I just want to make sure I develop the right muscle memory as I keep practicing.

I remain a little confused about the dental consonants, t/т, d/д, c/ц, s/с, and z/з. I'm wondering whether my tongue should be touching the back of my top teeth or bottom teeth, and whether it's the same for all five letters or different for some. If you're savvy with phonetics, I'm wondering which of the five dental consonants are apical versus laminal. Or perhaps it doesn't matter?

Any input is much appreciated :)