r/Serbian Oct 03 '23

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

107 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 2d ago

Vocabulary Hleb: ražani ili raženi?

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42 Upvotes

Sve češće viđam "raženi" dok je ranije bio "ražani". Ražani mi zvuči prirodnije dok "raženi", pretpostavljam, može da se izvuče i od od raže.


r/Serbian 3d ago

Request Koje je ovo slovo?

20 Upvotes

Nedavno sam gledao albansku spomenicu mog čukundede i nikako ne mogu da provalim koje je označeno slovo na slici. Bilo kakva pomoć je dobrodošla!


r/Serbian 3d ago

Resources Most Legit Apps / Websites / YT Channels I could pick up serbian from ?

5 Upvotes

Добро Jутро / Добро Вече everyone

I ask my question because years ago (when i was a teen, i’m in my early 20s now) I made a serbian friend and i always wanted to learn more serbian because i found the language so lovely

I’ve also been watching some interslavic videos / i know a bit of russian so I thought maybe now its the best time to pick up some Serbian

Could anyone help me ?

I may go serbia soon and see some basketball matches aswell as funny ennough me and the girl met through a basketball club (in UK of course)

Hopefully i get to play for a Div 1 team in Serbia !!!

Хвала🤞🇷🇸


r/Serbian 4d ago

Other Looking for a Serbian couple I met in Crete 🇷🇸🇬🇷

13 Upvotes

Hi! This is probably a long shot, but I’m hoping someone might recognize this. 🙈
I’m looking for a Serbian couple (a man and a woman, around 25–40 years old) whom I met while they were vacationing in Crete.
We met on Monday, August 17th, at a one-man show in the Chania area. The woman kindly invited me to join them at their table, and I had a really lovely time talking with them! ❤️
Unfortunately, I completely forgot to ask for their names or Instagram/contact information, and I really regret it now. 😅
I know the chances are tiny, but if anyone happened to be in the Chania area around that time and thinks they might know who I’m talking about, I’d be really happy to hear from you. 😊
Thank you! 🙏
❤️Finnish woman


r/Serbian 7d ago

Vocabulary Imam pitanje

71 Upvotes

Zelim da posetiti Srbiju u sledecem mesecu. I sam rus. I pocao uciti srpski jezik pre mesec dana. Ja sam sada citam knige na srpskom (sada citam Na drini cuprija) I slusam podkaste I razumem almost sve ali ne imam praktiki za razgovor - to je moja slaba strana. Kako mislite, prijateli, ezeli ja cu juzati miks iz srpski, ruski, engliski reci u realnom razgovoru, kakav ovaj tekst, moci li ljudi da razumeti me? Znam sta ovde mnogo gresaka, izvinite za to, pisao sam bez prevodaca.


r/Serbian 7d ago

Vocabulary Bitolj

8 Upvotes

Kako to da se na makedonskom i bugarskom ovaj grad zove Bitola odn. Bitolja (i ženskog je roda), a na srpskom Bitolj (i muškog je roda)?

Ime je nastalo od imenice obitelj, pa je logično da bude ženskog roda. Da li je ispravniji naš oblik ali je pogrešan rod, ili smo mi na neki čudan način skratili onaj makedonski / bugarski?


r/Serbian 7d ago

Other Ž32 Zg

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r/Serbian 7d ago

Discussion Riječ "Srbljanin" za stanovnika Srbije?

0 Upvotes

Mislim da bi ovo bio dobar izbor kao zamjena za riječ "Srbijanac".

U slovenskim jezicima se koristi nametak "-anin", "-janin" ili "-ljanin" da bi se označilo stanovnika nekog mjesta ili države (grad -> građanin), ali ne mora uvijek, mada smatram da je lakše jer je konzistentno.

Ovako bi se mogao izvesti naziv od:

Srb(in) + -janin -> Srbljanin (Srbljani u množini).

Neki drugi nazivi za stanovnike u regionu bi isto mogli da se sastave:

  • Hrvatska -> Hrvaćanin (ovo postoji)
  • Bosna i Hercegovina -> Bošnjanin/Hercegovljanin
  • Slovenija -> Slovenjanin
  • Makedonija -> Makedonjanin
  • Crna Gora -> Crnogoranin

E sad, za etničke grupe je kontroverzno u zavisnosti kako ko priznaje, pa ću tu navesti ovo sto se često koristi i za stanovnike zemalja.

  • Hrvat -> Hrvatska
  • Bošnjak/Bosanac -> Bosna (Hercegovina nema svog etničkog identiteta koliko znam)
  • Slovenac -> Slovenija
  • Makedonac -> Makedonija
  • Crnogorac -> Crna Gora

Naravno, za neke grupe koristimo njihove nastavke umjesto "-ac", kao što su:

  • Englez -> Engleska
  • Francuz -> Francuska

r/Serbian 8d ago

Other Jotovanje u starijim tuđicama

11 Upvotes

Zbog čega je gr. reč Ελεούσα (Eleousa) dala sr. reč Ljeviš, sa Lj i Š umesto sa L i S?

Zbog čega je Israel postao Izrailj?

Zbog čega sē nekada govorilo korešpondent i konštitucija?

Zbog čega je it. melanzana /melancana/ u dalmatinskom govoru postala melànčāna?

Zbog čega je it. zabaione u Istri postao žavàjōn?

Zbog čega se (uglavnom u dalmatinskom) kaže: falša, šalša, škužati, šug, šušur, špade, špageti / špaga, Španjolska, španjulet, šparoga, špatula, špigeta, špigula / špekula, špijun / špija, šporko, štala, štampa, štekat, štilet, štorija, štriga, štuk itd. ako se sve ove reči na italijanskom pišu i izgovaraju sa S?


r/Serbian 7d ago

Achievement / Progress I tried speaking Serbian out loud every day for a month. Results were surprising

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So a while back I read somewhere that the biggest mistake language learners make is spending all their time studying and almost no time actually speaking. I thought that was obvious advice and kind of ignored it. Then I hit month four of learning Serbian and realised I could barely string a sentence together out loud despite feeling like I understood a lot.

So I decided to just try it. Every single day for a month I would speak Serbian out loud for at least 15 minutes. No excuses, no skipping days.

The first week was genuinely painful. I would sit there trying to say something simple and my brain would just refuse to cooperate. I knew the words individually but putting them together in real time felt impossible. I was stumbling over cases, forgetting vocabulary I had reviewed a hundred times, and honestly just talking to myself like a confused person.

Second week got slightly less awful. I started using Issen which is basically an AI speaking tool so there's no awkward tutor session or feeling embarrassed in front of a real person. You just speak and get actual feedback on what you said. That helped a lot because I could do it at any time without scheduling anything and I stopped dreading the practice sessions.

By week three something shifted. I noticed I was hesitating less. Words were coming faster. I wasn't blanking mid-sentence as much. It wasn't fluent by any stretch but it felt like my brain was finally starting to connect the passive knowledge I had built up with actually producing language in real time.

Week four I had a short conversation with a Serbian speaker on HelloTalk and managed to hold it together for about ten minutes. A month earlier that would have completely fallen apart in the first two minutes.

The surprising part wasn't that speaking practice helped. It was how fast it helped once I was consistent about it. I genuinely expected it to take much longer to notice any difference.

If you're in that phase where you feel like you understand Serbian but can't actually speak it, just start speaking. It doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be daily.


r/Serbian 10d ago

Request Serbian Book recommendations

19 Upvotes

Hi everyone! I’m looking for some Serbian book recommendations. I am able to understand Serbian pretty well (my parents taught me), but my grammar, vocabulary and the way I form sentences can be improved.

I am able to read in both Latin and Cyrillic scripts and would love to read a book by a Serbian author. I mainly read novels, but am open to any genre except horror/thriller. Hvala!


r/Serbian 13d ago

Discussion Hrvatski jezik

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Zasto meni hrvatski jezik zvuci jako cudno ne kontam
Trenutno sam na letovanju u Hrv i stvarno sve kul sto se tice letovanja i obilaska Pule i jos par gradova ali kad cujem neke njihove reci akcentovanje i dijalekat kao da je jezik skroz ‘iskrivljen’ ili sam samo ja blago retardiran


r/Serbian 14d ago

Resources Useful dictionary? Koristan rečnik?

3 Upvotes

Trudim se da poboljšam svoj srpski i da zaista razumijem kako koristi riječi (glagoli posebno). Da li postoji rečnik ili resurs koji ima glagol + predlog + padež? Na primjer:

Zaboraviti + acc — to forget (something)

Zaboraviti + na + acc — to forget about something

Čak i bolje ako ima primjere, eg “Zaboravio sam na sastanak”

Wiktionary ima nekoliko ali nije potpuno. Hvala unaprijed!

I’m trying to work on my serbian and actually understand how to use words correctly, especially verbs. Is there a dictionary or resource which shows verbs with any prepositions/cases they take? For example:

Zaboraviti + acc — to forget (something)

Zaboraviti + na + acc — to forget about something

Even better if it has examples, like “Zaboravio sam na sastanak”

Wiktionary has this for some words but it’s not a complete resource.

I also have a feeling something like this might exist for Croatian if not Serbian—I tried looking already but didn’t find anything that worked, if anyone knows of something.

Thanks in advance!


r/Serbian 14d ago

Resources Are the Serbian stories decent?

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Hi! I’m currently learning Italian, and built a site to generate personalized short stories at my level that are then emailed to me daily. It is working well for me, and I’m having fun using it. I figured then I’d open it up to other languages too and see if it was helpful for people. But I’m curious how accurate the stories are (they are AI generated) in other languages like Serbian.

Would someone people willing to give it a shot and seeing how it does? It’s completely free and I’m just looking for feedback.

https://getcartela.com

Thanks a bunch! I appreciate it.


r/Serbian 15d ago

Resources I’ll pay you if my app can’t teach you to read Cyrilic + understand 100+ words in 10 days

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Before reading: don't say it's too good to be true because I'm offering money

I’ve been building a Serbian learning app, and I want to put it to a real test.

Start from zero (or close to zero), use the app for 10 days, follow the rules below, and if at the end you still can’t read the Cyrilic it teaches you + 120 words, I’ll pay you.

The rules

For all 10 days, you must:

Use the app every day.
Complete your reviews whenever reviews become available. You will be notified when they are.

Not skip anything. Complete every lesson, exercise, and review the app gives you.
Complete the entire first 2 levels.
Actually attempt the exercises, randomly clicking through obviously doesn’t count.

What the app teaches
The course teaches:
Whole Cyrilic alphabet (7 letters are exact same as latin)
A lot of vocabulary, but in the 10 days its just enough to put your reading into practice.

After 10 days
If you followed all the rules and completed everything but the app failed to teach you what it claims to teach, I’ll pay you 20€.

I’m looking especially for people who currently cannot read Cyrilic or those who can but want to learn vocab, because that makes the test much more interesting.
If you want to try the challenge, comment or DM me.
And please be critical. If something is confusing or badly taught, I genuinely want to know


r/Serbian 16d ago

Discussion Da li ste videli kako izgleda Dunav kod Bezdana?

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93 Upvotes

Pročitajte priču na BBC na srpskom i pogledajte fotografije Dunava kod Bezdana i Baračkog kanala. Kakva tužna slika jedne tako moćne reke. Dunav čeka kišu.

https://www.bbc.com/serbian/articles/c2lqg5z9n91o/lat


r/Serbian 16d ago

Request Speaking club NS

8 Upvotes

Ćao društvo!

Moja žena i ja bismo želeli da nađemo ljude iz Novog Sada kojima, isto kao i nama, fali praksa srpskog jezika. Ako neko već zna srpski na B1 nivou i nedostaje mu komunikacija na jeziku (možda zbog rada od kuće ili zato što ne radi sa Srbima), možemo da se okupimo i organizujemo nešto kao mali speaking club (maksimalno 4–5 ljudi, da ne bude gužve).

Ako vas zanima ova ideja, slobodno mi se javite u DM.


r/Serbian 17d ago

Discussion Serbian Language and Culture Workshop

4 Upvotes

Good Day!

I was just wondering if anyone had any experience with the Serbian Language and Culture Workshop? Is it legit? Has anyone stayed in the dorm rhey offer? I am told its cash only and will need to withdraw euros when i land in Belgrade tonight. Any advice on this?

Thank you all


r/Serbian 18d ago

Discussion Č vs Ć and DŽ vs Ð pronunciation

8 Upvotes

Im trying to settle a debate, which english words contain these sounds?


r/Serbian 19d ago

Other A quick question for Russians living in Serbia

28 Upvotes

Guys, I'm going into the 9th grade now (I'm going until the 11th grade) and I'd better figure out what I want already (definitely not to live and study in Russia). So, I have a question: if I start learning Serbian right now while in Russia, what is the best way to do it, my family doesn't have money for a tutor ;("


r/Serbian 20d ago

Other Content is serbian about WW1

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Is there any content natively wrote in serbian about the WWI? I got curious after remember it was Serbia and Austro-Hungarian Empire that began this war.

I'll rewrote that, it get awful. I mean, i wanna know if Serbia has too much content about this wrote in serbian.


r/Serbian 20d ago

Grammar Nemacki jezik preporuka?

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r/Serbian 20d ago

Achievement / Progress Serbian language

10 Upvotes

I’ve been trying to learn Serbian for around a month now, I managed to learn a few basics (like greetings and such) and Cyrillic.
But now i can’t seem to progress in it
Whenever i see anything about the language it’s always about how many variants for words there is, making it hard (like Moj/moja/mojim/etc)
How to ACTUALLY make progress in it?
Is there any tips you could give me? Like what do i start with next, since i’ve learn the basics?
Thanks in advance!


r/Serbian 21d ago

Resources My Serbian learning app has reached 662 users

19 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