Serbian - Numbers 0 to 10 

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Practicing Numbers 0 to 10 in Serbian 

Numbers in Serbian - some previous blog posts. 

Numbers one to four are not like the rest

Counting to ten is the easy half. The difficulty in Serbian is what the number does to the noun after it. Jedan behaves like an adjective and agrees in gender: jedan sto, jedna knjiga, jedno dete. Two, three and four take a special form — dva stola, tri knjige, četiri deteta — and from five upwards the noun goes into the genitive plural: pet stolova, šest knjiga, deset dece.

There is also a separate feminine form of two: dva for masculine and neuter, dve for feminine. So dva brata but dve sestre. Learn the numbers together with a noun and this stops being a rule you recite and becomes a phrase you say.

Numbers with the nouns they change

LatinicaЋирилицаEnglish
Imam jednu sestru i dva brata.Имам једну сестру и два брата.I have one sister and two brothers.
Na stolu su tri šolje.На столу су три шоље.There are three cups on the table.
Kupila sam pet jabuka.Купила сам пет јабука.I bought five apples.
U razredu je deset učenika.У разреду је десет ученика.There are ten pupils in the class.
Čekamo četiri minuta do polaska.Чекамо четири минута до поласка.We are waiting four minutes until departure.

Count real things

Look around the room and count what you can actually see, out loud, with the noun attached. Chairs, windows, cups, books. The moment you have to say pet stolica rather than just pet, the grammar arrives with the number and stays there.

Numbers in context

Translate these sentences and check the ending of every noun that follows a number. Give both scripts.

  1. I have two sisters.
  2. There are seven days in a week.
  3. We bought three tickets.
  4. She has one child.
  5. Give me six eggs, please.
Answers for numbers 0 to 10
EnglishLatinicaЋирилица
I have two sisters.Imam dve sestre.Имам две сестре.
There are seven days in a week.U nedelji ima sedam dana.У недељи има седам дана.
We bought three tickets.Kupili smo tri karte.Купили смо три карте.
She has one child.Ona ima jedno dete.Она има једно дете.
Give me six eggs, please.Daj mi šest jaja, molim te.Дај ми шест јаја, молим те.