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Monday, October 31, 2016

Serbian Language with Recipes - Exotic Chicken

In today's "Radni ručak" we can enjoy watching "Piletina lampia" with the chef Samir and beautiful Milena.

Listen to the video and try to answer the following questions:

1. Jedan sastojak je viška. Koji?

piletina
crvena paprika
tikvica
crni luk
so
pirinač
med
ananas
banana
šampinjoni
šargarepa
pavlaka
biber
sirće

2. Od čega se sastoji sledeće jelo - koji oblik nije gramatički tačan?

od piletine
od crvene paprike
od tikvice
od crnog luka
od solija
od pirinča
od meda
od ananasa
od banane
od šampinjona
od šargarepe
od pavlake
od bibera
od sirćeta

3. Koje imenice nedostaju iza glagola koje sam navela?

iseći
seći ... na kockice
dodati ...
staviti ... da se peče
iseći ... na krupno
iseći ... na pola, pa još na pola
iseći ... na sitne kockice
dodati ... i papriku na kraju
sipati polako ...
koristimo neutralnu ... ili ... za kuvanje
dodati malo ...
kao podlogu ćemo staviti ...
dodaćemo još malo ... i to bi bilo to

Answer key:

Days of the Week in Serbian at Three Levels

Marina Accusative in Serbian , genitive in Serbian

I'm sure that you find Serbian days of the week easy to pronounce. However, if you still struggle with Thursday (četvrtak), there's a useful introduction in this video to help you pronounce days well.

Since rarely does anyone use days of the week in its Nominative form:

1. Ponedeljak = Monday = Понедељак

2. Utorak = Tuesday = Уторак

3. Sreda = Wednesday = Среда

4. Četvrtak = Thursday = Четвртак

5. Petak = Friday = Петак

6. Subota = Saturday = Субота

7. Nedelja = Sunday = Недеља

Let me share with you a few exercises at three different levels:

A. Days of the Week in Serbian

a. Flashcards
b. Matching game
c. Gravity game
d. Test

B: What are you doing on + DAY ( Accusative case )? = Šta radiš u subotu?

Let's practice together:

a. Flashcards
b. Matching game
c. Gravity game
d. Test

C: Words "svaki / sledeći / naredni / drugi + day "will trigger the Genitive case of both the adjective and the noun in the question:"What are you doing next Monday?" = "Šta radiš sledećeg ponedeljka?"

Let's practice together:

a. Flashcards
b. Matching game
c. Gravity game
d. Test

Learning Serbian with Games - Relative Pronouns

Marina Games , relative pronoun koji

Today we are going to practice relative pronouns in Serbian in a fun way!

Relative pronouns /question words which and who in Serbian also change according to the number and gender, so I want you here to have fun playing a memory game + use a bit more complex sentences, such as:

Vidim čoveka koji radi na kompjuteru.
Vidim čoveka koji nosi kapu.
Vidim ženu koja razgovara s nekim.
Vidim dete koje nosi haljinu.

Although the verb VIDETI to see, requires the accusative case, I'll list all the forms (declensions) of ko and koji below.

Nominative - ko/ koji = who /which

čovek koji radi = a man who is working
žena kojA radi = a woman who is working
dete kojE radi = a child who is working
ljudi koji rade = people who are working
žene kojE rade = women who are working
deca kojA rade = children who are working

Genitive - from whom / which

od kojeg(a) / kog(a) čoveka
od koje žene
od kog deteta
od kojih ljudi
od kojih žena
od koje dece

Dative - to whom / which

kojem / kom čoveku
kojoj ženi
kojem / kom detetu
kojim ljudima
kojim ženama
kojim ljudima

Accusative - who(m) /which

kojeg / kog čoveka (animate category = gen.) ili koji hamburger (inanimate category)
koju ženu
koje dete
koje ljude
koje žene
koju decu

Instrumental - with who(m) / which

sa kojim čovekom
sa kojom ženom
sa kojim detetom
sa kojim ljudima
sa kojim ženama
sa kojom decom

Locative - about who(m)/which

o kojem / kom čoveku
o kojoj ženi
o kojem / kom detetu
o kojim ljudima
o kojim ženama
o kojim ljudima

Serbian Adjectives and Nouns in Genitive Case

Marina Genetive in Serbian ,

After doing the exercise in Nominative, both Singular and Plural, let's move onto
Genetive case: (to find out which case is Genetive ask the following quiestons: ‘Of whom, whose’ (od koga) or ‘of what’ (čega)

Example: Some 'se' verbs require Genetive, like to be scared OF 'plašiti se' or to take hold OF 'dočepati se'
Singular: Plašim se skupog automobila.

adjectives: LEP / JAK / VISOK / VELIK / SKUP

___________ knjigE. (book)
___________ momkA. (young man)
___________ automobilA. (car)
___________ nosA. (nose)
___________ zgradE. (building)
___________ kućE. (house)
___________ stoLA. (table)
___________ torbE. (bag)
___________ deteTA. (child)
___________ zrnA. (grain)

Adjectives + Plural Nouns in Genetive:

adjectives: LEP / JAK / VISOK / VELIK / SKUP
(beautiful/strong/tall/big, large/expensive)

*Try to use all the adjectives that collocate with the nouns as follows:
Example:
Plural: ...od lepih knjiga.

___________ momakA.
___________ automobilA.
___________ nosEVA.
___________ zgrada.
___________ kuća.
___________ stoLOVA.
___________ torbI.
___________ decE.
___________ zrnA.
___________ devojAkA.

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What I don't like to do when teaching Serbian grammar is to actually give the kind of exercise I just posted above - mixing up all the genders, so you cannot infer the rule (which majority of textbooks do). That's why for more elementary students, I'd group words in an exercise like the following one:

Nominative Fem. Sg. KUĆA, DEVOJKA, TORBA, KNJIGA, ZGRADA
+ Adjective: velikA kućA, velikA devojkA, velikA torbA, velikA knjigA, velikA zgradA
(so that your ears come to like this A-A concordance)
Genetive Fem. Sg: od kućE, od devojkE, od torbE, od knjigE, od zgradE
+ Adjective: od velikE kućE, od visokE devojkE, od skupE torbE, od jeftinE knjigE
(so that your ears come to like this E-E concordance)
etc. etc.
I think that so many (meaningless) suffixes like 'a' 'e' 'ih' 'og' 'u' 'om' ... can be learnt only through drill and immersion. What do you think, how many seconds/minutes would it take for you to think about all the categories (and their corresponding suffixes) involved in the following sentence in order to utter it fluently and accurately: 'Koliko lepih devojaka u ovom divnom gradu!' ?

Easter Day in Serbia

Marina Easter ,

Easter Day in Serbia

On Easter day people in Serbia crack their Easter eggs with one another, in search for the strongest egg :) We start from the early morning! At first, during breakfast we start cracking eggs and each of us keeps the strongest one. Then we meet with our relatives at Sunday lunch where we continue with this never-ending fight. There is usually one egg which beats all the rest and we keep it until the next year.

In this video you can see what it looks like:

Here comes an exercise where you can practice the Genitive case together with the possessive form and comparatives (bolji / gori = better / worse; jači / slabiji = stronger / weaker; lepši / ružniji = nicer / uglier; manje / veće =smaller/bigger etc.). Watch the video first and then decide whose egg is stronger/better/weaker/worse! Have fun and a Happy Easter!

Serbian Language with Vicevi

Marina Accusative in Serbian , genitive in Serbian

Vic in Serbian means a joke.

Telling easy jokes makes learning a language fun and easy. That's why I am sharing with you the first two parts of a very long joke which has some of the most frequently used verbs:

otvoriti = to open
zatvoriti = to close
staviti = to put
izvaditi = to take out

In the first video you can watch the Present tense version of this story with an explanation and translation:

In the second video lesson you can see how you can change the same joke, so it has the same meaning, but you practice the Accusative and Genitive cases without noticing it :D

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Serbian Language Tests - Locative 1

Marina Activator Video Lessons , Serbian grammar

Although you can find a lot of Serbian language exercises on this site, I am sure you'll like my new way of reading 'n' grammar tests :)

If you are not sure what the right answers are, I'll publish a video with the key tomorrow :)
Make sure you check the blog posts about:

Let's practice Locative, Accusative and Genitive with Vicevi

Marina Accusative in Serbian , genitive in Serbian

Now that you feel more confident telling a joke (ispričati vic) about an elephant and giraffe, let's do some grammar exercises for fun :)

Who is More Dangerous ?

Marina adjective comparison in Serbian , Serbian language 365

I surely wasn't doing a great job tagging and linking the blog posts properly when I first started it back in 2007 - 2008. As it transpired, it seems there were only two posts covering the topic of comparison of adjectives in Serbian ! Shame on me ! This should be urgently fixed...

For now, try to compare the animals you see in the video sticking to the following sentence structure, using only the adjective "dangerous" = opasan (comparative : Singular: opasniji (masc) - opasnija(fem) - opasnije (neut.) Plural: opasniji (masc) - opasnije (fem) - opasnija (neut) )

For pre-intermediate level: Lav je opasniji od zebre (Gen. of "zebra")
For intermediate and upper levels: Mislim da je lav opasniji od zebre.

Animals in the video with their Genitive form:

zebra - od zebre
tigar - od tigra
ajkula - od ajkule
orao - od orla
medved = od medveda
lav = od lava
panda = od pande
vuk = od vuka
žirafa = od žirafe
aligator = od aligatora
golub = od goluba
zmija = od zmije
lane = od laneta

Learning Serbian with Jokes - Lesson 4

Marina Jokes in Serbian ,

If you liked the joke about an elephant, giraffe and the fridge, and all its variations through tenses, you will be more than happy to learn that there is a sequel to it :)

In this part you are simply learning to explain why not all the animals are at the lion's party.

Vocabulary:

slaviti = to celebrate
taj lav = the lion
rođendan = birthday
svi = all
životinja = animal
sve životinje = all the animals
žurka = party
njegova = his
na njegovoj žurci = at his party

Pay attention to the word PARTY - žurka:

Ovo je super žurka = This is a great party (Nominative)
Dolazim sa žurke = I am coming from the party (Genitive)
Idem ka žurci = I am going to(wards) the party (Dative)
Idem na žurku = I am going to the party (Accusative)
Lav je zadovoljan žurkom = The lion is satisfied with the party (Instrumental)
Lav je na žurci = The lion is at the party (Locative)

Geography Lesson 1 - Serbian Accusative and Genitive

Marina Accusative in Serbian , Games

One of the best ways to learn SErbian is by playing games. I have recently found this website for learning Geography called Online Seterra and while playing this game, I made the following video lesson for you:

A follow up exercise coming soon!

Learn Serbian 365 Days with Songs and Poems - Branko Miljković

Marina Serbian language 365 , Serbian poems

If you are at upper-intermediate or advanced level of Serbian, I'm sure you'll fall in love with this poem at first sight/hearing :) Zaljubićete se u ovu pesmu Branka Miljkovića na prvi pogled / prvo slušanje :)

If you are not sure about the words and the meanings, you'll find it on this lyricstranslation.com page.
For all those who'd like to practise the Genitive case after the preposition "zbog" = because of, here is the exercise based on this magnificient poem.

Learning Serbian with Songs

Marina Listening comprehension , listening comprehension skills

If you like learning Serbian with songs, I'm sure oyu will like some of the new exercises I published on the new SerbianLessons page:

Learning Serbian with Songs

Super Easy - Boje
Super Easy - Čokolada
Elementary - Whistle at 8 = Zvižduk u 8
Pre-intermediate, Present Simple Verbs - Da li čuješ?
Intermediate, Genitive - Još volim te

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