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Monday, August 15, 2022

Serbian 102 - Locative Exercises

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Today we are practicing how to say where you are in Serbian with the following words:

Places in City in Serbian

BANK: Banka - u banci
CHURCH: Crkva - u crkvi
BUILDING: Zgrada - u zgradi
GALLERY: Galerija - u galeriji
PHARMACY: Apoteka - u apoteci
MUSEUM: Muzej - u muzeju
PARKING: Parking - na parkingu
AERODROM: Aerodrom - na aerodromu

Gde ste? Where are you?

Time to practice pronunciation

Serbian 102 - Locative Exercises

Textbooks for Learning Serbian - Where are Kids?

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My latest textbook is finally visible on Amazon :) I have created a video lesson for you, based on the first few pages. This is just an introduction in which you can practice one of the most commonly confused language chunks in Serbian:

I am going to ... = idem u + accusative case e.g. idem u park - idem u prirodu
I am in / at = ja sam u/na + locative case e.g. ja sam u parku - ja sam u prirodi

As you can see, the page numbers are here and there, so you can learn the following phrases:

U gornjem desnom uglu = at the top right corner
U donjem levom uglu = at the bottom left corner
Na sredini = in the middle

This book also has all the letters (slova) of the Cyrillic alphabet hidden in it - all you have to do is look carefully. Once it was published it took me ages to find a few letters, they are hidden soooo well! The most important thing is that all 30 letters are in the book!

Koliko ste našli slova?
Gde ste ih našli?
Koje slovo je bilo najteže naći?

Serbian 301 - Adjectives in Locative

Marina adjectives in Locative , locative case in Serbian

Before we start working on Serbian adjective suffixes in the Locative case, let's listen to this beautiful song, where you'll get acquainted with one of the suffixes and learn it without thinking much about grammar:

U Novom Sadu,

u Novom Sadu hej

ostadoh kraj tebe

(2x)

Ref. 2x

Oj Jelena oj Jelice

zagrli me, polubi me

Kraj tamburaša

i dobrog vina hej

u Novom Sadu hej

ostadoh zbog tebe

(2x)

Ref. 2x

Čim zora svane

i sunce grane hej

u Novom Sadu hej

šaljem ti poljubce.

(2x)

Ref. 2x

U Novom Sadu

u Novom Sadu hej

ostaću kraj tebe

moj slatki Anđele

(2x)

Ref. 2x

Now, let's try to do the following exercise:

Serbian 102 - Nominative, Accusative and Locative

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Let me tell you that the fifth book for learning Serbian is ready to be published. Here comes one exercise based from it. Let me know if it is useful and if you need more of these?

Srpski 102 - Lokativ, drugi deo

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I am sure you managed to find all the page numbers in the book Ko je ko? Here comes a mobile friendly exercise to help you with pages number 28 to 26. Have fun

Don't forget to flick through the pages in the sample version. If you like it, the book can be purchased through Amazon, or at a special price for the bulk purchase, for the followers of the blog through my BookMe page :)

Serbian for Kids - Locative Case Fun Way

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Serbian for Kids - Locative Case

There are two parts in this video. In the first part you are just listening to me searching for and finding numbers. In the second part, I added the answer key to the left and right, so you can see why some words get an "i" at the end, and the others get an "u" at the end.

So, whenever you want to say that you are somewhere, we use the Locative case which will change the ending of the word which describes your the location. The same is with the numbers in this video.

Locative Case Fun Way

Words ending in -a (most of Feminine, Singular)

GDE su brojevi stranica?

OGRADA - 4 je na ogradi
ČARAPA - 6 je na čarapi
TRAVA - 8 je na travi
PATIKA - 10 je na patici
MAJICA - 14 je na majici
KOŠULJA - 14 je na košulji
ŠKOLA - 16 je na školi
KLACKALICA - 18 je na klackalici
PALMA - 20 je na palmi
KOSA - 22 je na kosi
TRAMPOLINA - 24 je na trampolini

Words ending in a consonant (Masc. Sg.) or -E/O (Neut. Sg.)

BALON - 5 je na balonu

OBLAK - 7 je na oblaku

CVET - 9 je na cvetu

DRVO - 11 je na drvetu

ŠORC - 13 je na šorcu

TOBOGAN - 15 je na toboganu

CIRKUS - 21 je na cirkusu

KROV - 21 je na krovu

OBRAZ - 23 je na obrazu

LICE - 23 je na licu

U potrazi za ostalim brojevima = Searching for other numbers

Now it's time for you to search the other part of the book and write in the comments where all the other numbers are... I'm curious! Jedva čekam vaše odgovore :)

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 :)

Serbian Lessons with Subtitles and Exercises

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I am so happy to share this video lesson which is 100% in Serbian with subtitles. I am sure they will help you hear what I am saying better. After the video there is an exercise which is made based on the text, a bit changed though.

Where is Marko Now - Serbian Locative 3

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In our fun Serbian comics we can learn where people are, or where they were in the past. Today we are using the same case, the Locative case to express where we are in a house and after that we can also say what we are doing in the house.

Instead of a comic, I recorded a video for you, so you can practice saying simple sentences:

Ovo je HODNIK. Ovo je Marko. Marko je u hodnikU. On ne radi ništa u hodniku.
Ovo je KUHINJA. Ovo je Marko. Marko je u kuhinjI. On pravi doručak u kuhinji.

Can you listen to the rest of the story and make similar sentences for:

KUPATILO
TRPEZARIJA
SPAVAĆA SOBA
RADNA SOBA
TERASA
TAVAN
DNEVNA SOBA

Singular Nouns in Locative in Serbian

Before thinking about the grammar, try to hear how I am using these words with the prepositon U or NA. If you are not sure, here comes a bit of advice:

Sg. Masc >>> add -U (u hodniku, u Londonu, u muzeju)

Sg. Fem >>> add - I (u kuhinji, u Moskvi, u galeriji)

Exercises and Practice

For more exercises with the activities and the locative case, check out my Patreon blog!

Where are you today? Part 2

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What do you want to do TODAY?
Šta želite da radite DANAS?

Today I am in Paris. I want to see the Mona Lisa.
DANAS sam u Parizu. Želim da vidim Mona Lizu.

While in the previous lesson we noticed that the Locative Singular ending was only -i, it was like that simply because we were in places which are in Feminine Singular (U Moskvi, Aziji, Evropi, Budimpešti...)

However, today we are in having fun in places which are Masculine Singular and that's why we add the suffix -u at the end of each place:

Ja sam danas u Parizu. = Danas sam u Parizu.
...Beograd >>> Beogradu
...Lisabon >>> Lisabonu
... Sidnej >>> Sidneju
... Niš >>> Nišu
...muzej >>> muzeju
... centar >>> centru

Where are you today?

Marina locative case in Serbian , locative in Serbian

Where are you today?

Today we are in Moscow. Moscow is in Russia. Russia is in Europe and Asia. Where are you today? Let's say this in Serbian!

Latin Script Version

Danas smo u Moskvi :) Moskva je u Rusiji. Rusija je u Evropi i Aziji. Gde ste vi danas?

Cyrillic Script Version

Данас смо у Москви :) Москва је у Русији. Русија је у Европи и Азији. Где сте ви данас?