Expand your Serbian furniture vocabulary by grouping objects by room, using both scripts and creating complete location sentences.

Furniture in Serbian - Expand your Vocabulary

In the previous month I posted a few exercises for you to practice how to pronounce rooms in a flat in Serbian. There was an exercise to help you write and read the same words both in the  Latin and Cyrillic script. I hope you liked all the exercises.

 Now it's time to expand the vocabulary and learn about the furniture in different rooms. Here comes an exercise with flash cards to help you hear and pronounce the words correctly!

Furniture in Serbian



Games with Furniture in Serbian 

To simply recognize the words, play the Scatter game by pulling the photos over the words or vice versa.



When you are ready to practice writing and actively connecting photos with the words, enjoy playing

As usual, there is a vocabulary game, but this time it's a hangman game based on some of the words from the previous exercises.


My Room In Serbian - Lesson 9

Adding adjectives to the furniture you already know

Do not memorise furniture as a long unconnected list. Group words by function and room, attach the correct gender, and add a phrase that you can reuse. For example: udoban krevet, velika polica, novo ogledalo. Then practise the contrast between gde? with the locative and kuda? with the accusative, especially after stavljati or staviti.

If you can already name the objects, the next step is describing them. Krevet becomes udoban krevet, polica becomes velika polica. Each adjective has to agree with its noun, so this vocabulary set doubles as gender practice — you cannot get the adjective right without knowing whether the noun is masculine, feminine or neuter.

Furniture and adjectives, in both scripts

Latin scriptCyrillic scriptEnglish
U sobi je udoban krevet.У соби је удобан кревет.There is a comfortable bed in the room.
Knjige stoje na velikoj polici.Књиге стоје на великој полици.The books are on a large shelf.
Kupili smo novo ogledalo.Купили смо ново огледало.We bought a new mirror.
Stavi stolicu pored stola.Стави столицу поред стола.Put the chair beside the table.
U ormaru držim čistu odeću.У ормару држим чисту одећу.I keep clean clothes in the wardrobe.

Notice how the adjective ending shifts with the case as well as the gender: velika polica but na velikoj polici. Reading the Cyrillic column is useful precisely because these endings are the part your eye skips when the word looks familiar.

Describing what is around you

Look around the room you are in and describe five objects, each with one adjective. Then say where each one is, which pushes you into the locative. Doing this in a real room rather than from a list means the words arrive attached to something you can see, and they stay longer.

Furniture exercise

Translate these sentences into Serbian in both alphabets, and check the gender of each noun before choosing the adjective form.

  1. There is a comfortable bed in the room.
  2. The books are on a large shelf.
  3. We bought a new mirror.
  4. Put the chair beside the table.
  5. I keep clean clothes in the wardrobe.

Answers

  1. U sobi je udoban krevet.
    У соби је удобан кревет.
  2. Knjige stoje na velikoj polici.
    Књиге стоје на великој полици.
  3. Kupili smo novo ogledalo.
    Купили смо ново огледало.
  4. Stavi stolicu pored stola.
    Стави столицу поред стола.
  5. U ormaru držim čistu odeću.
    У ормару држим чисту одећу.