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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
- Da li (+Subject if it is necessary, or cannot be inferred from the conjugation) + Verb ... Example: Da li Ivan živi u Novom Sadu? Da li živimo u Novom Sadu?
- Da li + Verb TO BE (+ S ) Example: Da li si u Parizu? Da li si ti Ivan?
- Da li + se (+ S) + Verb in case of verbs with reflexive pronoun 'se' ... Example: Da li se on zove Ivan? Da li se budiš u pet ili u šest?
Let me add the word order commonly used in colloquial speech:
- Živi li Ivan u Novom Sadu ? - Verb + li + (S)
- Jesi li u Parizu ? - To be (only the full forms: jesam/jesi/jeste/jesmo/jeste/jesu) + li + (S) ...
- Zoveš li se Ivan ? - Verb + li + se + (S) / Jel' + se +(S) + Verb
Exercise: Make 6 Yes/No questions about Ivan. The answers are in the first comment, because Ivan doesn't feel like recording his own voice right now :o(
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Lokativ ____ (is) padež koji ide uz predloge 'na', 'u', 'o', 'po', 'pri'. On označava mesto ____ ( where) se vrši radnja ili gde se nešto nalazi. Zato se i ______ (named) padežom mesta. Latinski 'locus' ______ (means) mesto. Evo nekoliko primera ______ (with) predlogom 'U':
Ljudi žive u Beograd__ , u Kruševc__, u Brisel__ ili na sel_. Kada ____ (are) imenice muškog i srednjeg roda u jednini, onda se doda nastavak 'U'. Ljudi žive i u Srbij___, Belgij__, Italij__ - ali pošto su ovo imenice ženskog roda u jednini, one gube poslednje 'a', i dodaje im se nastavak 'I'.
Lokativ se _________ (also) koristi i da iskažemo o kome pričamo, i tada se koristi _______ (with) predlog "o". Juče sam pričala o prijatelj___, muškarcim_, drugaric__ i odel___- u množini lokativ zahteva sledeće nastavke -ima, za muški rod, -ama i srednji -ima!
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Sunday, November 02, 2008
Singular Cases Suffixes in Serbian
Case name: | Answers question: | Used to describe: | Suffixes (I tried describing just the majority of case endings, general rule, not the exceptions and specific ones) | |
Nominative | KO? ŠTA? Who? What? | Usually the subject of a sentence and predicative | - Masc. most often ends in a consonant - Fem. most often ends in A - Neut. most often ends in -E or -O | |
Genitive | KOGA?ČEGA? Of who? Of what? | Possession, belonging, a part of something | - Masc. nouns take an - A ending - Fem. nouns drop the final -a and take an -E ending - Neut. nouns drop the final -e or -o and take an - A ending (while some nouns in animate category add an infix T, so you get deteTA, pileTA) | |
Dative | KOME?ČEMU? To whom? To what? | The noun to which/ whom something is given, shown, etc. | - Masc. nouns take an - U ending - Fem. nouns drop the final -a and take an -i ending - Neut. nouns drop the final -e or -o and take an - U ending | |
Accusative | KOGA? ŠTA? Whom? What? | Usually the object of a sentence | - Masc. nouns describing inanimate concepts don't change while nouns in animate category (person / animal / plant) take an - A ending, the same as the genitive case - Fem. nouns drop the final -a and take an -U ending - Neut. nouns describing inanimate concepts don't change, regardless of the category (animate/inanimate) | |
Vocative | HEJ! Calling someone or in poems referring to something or some place | Used to address somebody or something | - Masc. nouns ending in a consonant take an - E ending, the ones ending in an -a drop the final -a and take an -O suffix, otherwise they don't change (examples: Dejvid - Dejvide! Pera - Pero! Mirko - Mirko! ) - Fem. nouns of the foreign origin don't change in the locative, while the two and more syllable ones drop the final -a and take an -O ending, while names ending in -CA drop the final A and take an -E (Marina! Kim! Nada - Nado! Ljubica - Ljubice!) - Neut. nouns don't change | |
Instrumental | S KIM? ČIM? Using, with, whom? Using, with, what? | Company (with preposition s) or utilization of something or someone to accomplish an action | - Masc. nouns take an - OM ending - Fem. nouns drop the final -a and take an -OM ending - Neut. nouns drop the final -e or -o and take an - OM ending >>> for all genders, after some "soft" sounds you will have an ending -EM (mužEM, tušEM...) | |
Locative | GDE? O KOME? O ČEMU? Where? About whom? | Location, Relation | (It's good to know that the locative = dative in form) - Masc. nouns take an - U ending - Fem. nouns drop the final -a and take an -i ending - Neut. nouns drop the final -e or -o and take an - U ending |
Plural Cases Suffixes in Serbian ... coming soon
Exercise with Case Suffixes in Serbian
Draga Anna,
Hvala ti za predivnu idej__ kako da vodim ovaj blog. Trudiću se da redovno objavljujem kratke prič__ ili postov__ , bez nastavak__ za padež___, a rešenj___ ćeš moći da pročitaš u audio fajl__ na vrhu___ svak___ post___. U početk___ ću pisati lakše tekst___ , pa sve teže i teže. Možeš mi i dojaviti šta ti se sviđa, a šta ne u komentar___.
Pošto svakodnevno izmišljam test____ za učenik___ englesk___, neće mi biti teško da to radim i za srpsk___ . Nadam se da ćeš uživati, kao i ostali vredni učenic__ koji nalete na ovaj blog.
Do sledećeg javljanj___ sve najbolje i puno pozdrav___
od Marin___
ps. the answer key is in comments
Friday, October 31, 2008
ŠTA? - what?
KADA? - when?
GDE? - where?
KAKO? - how?
KOLIKO? - how much/many?
ZAŠTO ? - why?
ZBOG ČEGA ? - what for?
S KIM? - who with?
KOME? - who to?
Saturday, October 25, 2008
It is with great excitement that I inform you that yesterday we won the Accenture Innovation Award!
Amongst 230 companies that applied, Myngle was first selected as one the top 5 that would present the concept in front of a jury panel from broader media, consulting, investment world. Quite exciting!
As founder of Myngle, I recorded a short 1 minute pitch, which was showed already in a posting below, and a longer one, which was shown during the conference, you can watch it here too:
During the pitch, I thought I had to be myself, and tell the real reasons that had brought me to start Myngle. It is not only about business, but also about some idealistic little voice inside me that sometimes speaks somewhat harder; something that made me believe that there are possibilities within our capacity that can really make a difference. I had a dream… that was Myngle J
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Days of the week - the video with useful phrases for arranging a meeting
PONEDELJAK - Monday
UTORAK - Tuesday
SREDA - Wednesday
ČETVRTAK - Thursday
PETAK - Friday
SUBOTA - Saturday
NEDELJA - Sunday
For more advanced exercises with days of the week in Serbian check out this post.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Name and address in Serbian
Let's start with vocabulary covering the most essential phrases:LIČNI PODACI = personal data
IME = first name
PREZIME = surname
DEVOJAČKO PREZIME = maiden name
LIČNA KARTA = identity card
PASOŠ = passport
MESTO ROĐENJA = place of birth
DATUM ROĐENJA = date of birth
STALNA ADRESA = permanent address
POŠTANSKA ADRESA = postal address
OŽENJEN = married (for men)
NEOŽENJEN = single (for men)
UDATA = married (for women)
NEUDATA = single (for women)
RAZVEDEN = divorced (for men)
RAZVEDENA = divorced (for women)
UDOVAC = widower
UDOVICA = widow
POL = sex
MALE = muški
FEMALE = ženski
How do I say my name and address in Serbian?
Friday, August 01, 2008
Take a look at the Cyrillic( Ćirilica) and Latin (Latinica) scripts which we have and repeat the letters one by one. For the sake of easy learning and translation to English, I use the Latin alphabet, but you can always print both on one page and keep it handy. If you hava a colour printer, you can use this link to print it on one A4 page.
There is one more explanation, where you can clearly hear and see the letters of both alphabets Link 1.:
For more videos check out my Youtube channel SerbianLessons!
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Getting rid of diapers is difficult, but everybody does it in a course of one, two or even three years, ok... 4, it happens - but it is over, and you go on.
The same is with languages: depending on your surroundings: whether Serbian is spoken every day or you are completely on your own, whether you are a fast learner or not...
Depending on numerous factors like these, the process can take a year, two, or even three, ok... sometimes 4, but you will learn this language and you are going to love it :-)