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Monday, November 11, 2019

Serbian 301 - Asking Questions

Marina Accusative in Serbian , Serbian 301

Serbian 301 - Asking Questions with Verbs which Require Accusative

In the previous lessons of Serbian 301, you practiced:

using the accusative case of the nouns following the verb VIDETI = TO SEE
using the relative clauses with KOJI /KOJA/ KOJI/ KOJE = who
listening comprehension task in this post

Serbian 301 - Asking Questions

Now, let's practice asking questions about these photos! Let me give you a few examples.

Šta žena čita? Ona čita novine.
Gde sedi žena koja čita novine? Sedi u kafiću.
Da li žena koja sedi u kafiću pije kafu ili vino? Ona pije kafu.
Šta nosi žena koja čita novine? Nosi beretku.
Gde ide žena koja nosi kafu? Ide na posao.
Gde su ljudi? Oni su u muzeju.
Šta ljudi koji su u muzeju gledaju? Gledaju veliku sliku.
Gde su ove devojčice? One su u vozu.
Šta čitaju devojčice koje su u vozu? Čitaju Hari Potera
Gde je ova crkva? Na Novom Zelandu.
Kako izgledaju ljudi koji idu u crkvu? Ljudi koji posećuju crkvu su stari.

Serbian 301 - Asking Questions in Cyrillic Script

Let's fill in the gaps while reading the same questions in the Cyrillic script.

Serbian 101 - Asking Simple Questions in Serbian

Marina asking questions in Serbian , Serbian 101

Asking Questions about different topics

In the previous posts there are a bunch of exercises to practice asking questions in Serbian. You can find all of them here.

Today, I'll add some exercises for you to practice and play with:

Asking Questions with Ti

Flashcards

Match

Learn

Asking Questions with Vi

Flashcards

Match

Learn

Learning Serbian with Short and Easy Texts - Routines

Marina Serbian for beginners , Short stories in Serbian

Here comes a short text about routines both in Serbian and in English. I hope that my video will help you understand the text in Serbian. There is also a task to be done:

- After listening to me asking and answering questions, you can try to do the same - practice asking questions and giving answers, and recording all that on www.Vocaroo.com

Exercse

1. Routines - missing verbs

2. Routines - missing pronouns

4. Link to the edited video with questions and answers written and translated + additional exercises with questions and answers

Serbian 301 - Retelling Story

Marina asking questions in Serbian , Past tense

In Serbian 301 one is practicing to confidently ask and answer questions about some past tense events. This can be practiced in different ways:

talking about your past, or past events in your life
talking about your friends and family and their experiences
retelling a short story that we have previously learnt
retelling an interesting film/book plot

Additionally, you can also practice telling a story based on a suitable song. Let's take Kristing by Zdravko Čolić, for example!

Retelling Story in Serbian - Song

Retelling Story in Serbian

For the sake of understanding here comes a page with the lyrics translation (not the perfect one, though, but you'll get the gist) and now you can practice retelling the story with the following set of exercises:

Retelling Story by asking questions

Now that you know what has actually happen, can you add your questions in the comments below?

Let me start with just a few:

Kada je Zdravko išao na salaš?
Gde je bio salaš?
Šta sve znači "društvo"?
Ko je stajao na vratima?
Šta je petrolejka?

Asking Questions in Serbian - Present Simple

Marina asking for clarification in Serbian , easy Serbian

Let me show you one more video in the series called Easy Texts in Serbian. This time you have to ask direct questions about the word which is in red.

For example: "Zovem se Tanja" - your task is to ask:

"Kako se zoveš ?" informal
"Kako se zovete ?" formal

For the following questions start with these question words:

Gde ... (where)
Kako ... (how)
Koliko godina ... (how old)
Kakvi ... (what...like)

Greetings from Genitive - Part 2

Marina easy Serbian , Genetive in Serbian

If you really had fun learning Genitive yesterday, I'm sure you'll have a blast today:

As you can see, there's a bunch of characters speaking to you in Serbian (written both in the Cyrillic and Latin alphabet :) Because they are talking about where they are right now, they are using (guess what?) the Genitive case. Now, I have a few tasks for you. Let's find out:

A. Who is saying what? = Ko šta kaže?

Sunce kaže:
Majmun kaže:
Ptica kaže:
Dečko kaže:

B. Where are = Gde su...

dečko (a boy)
devojčica (a girl)
pingvin (a penguin)
ptica (a bird)
majmun (a monkey)
sunce (the sun)
mačka (a cat)

C. One Cyrillic text is missing - which one? Write it in the comment below:

Serbian Genitive with Sg. Feminine Nouns

I hope you have mastered your Genitive with Sg. Masc. nouns. That's why we are working on the nouns which are Fem. Sg. today. Look at the examples:

Ja sam iznad zgrade! Ko sam ja? Da li sam ja ptica?
Danas sam ispred zgrade! Ko sam ja? Da li sam ja mačka?
Oni su iznad mene! Ko su oni? Ko sam ja?
On nije iznad mačke! Ja sam iznad mačke! Ko sam ja?

What happens with the following nouns?

zgrada = building
ptica = bird
mačka = cat
devojčica = girl
voda = water

when they follow the prepositions:

iznad = above or over
ispod = below or under
iz = from
pored = near or beside

By looking the examples, you can see that the final -a disappears, becoming an -e:

Iznad zgradE = above the building
Ispod pticE = under the bird
Pored mačkE = beside the cat
Iza devojčicE = behind the girl
Iznad vodE = above the water

Asking simple questions with the verb TO BE in Serbian

I am sure you have noticed two types of questions in this exercise:

Wh-? questions: Ko sam ja = Who am I and Ko su oni? Who are they?
Yes-no questions: Da li sam ja pingvin? = Am I a penguin?

With the verb to be=biti, it is obvious that there is

a wh-? question word before an inversion (ja sam becomes KO sam ja)
da li question phrase before an inversion (ja sam becomes DA LI sam ja)

Yes, it's that simple :)

Rešenje = Solution

Now that you understand EVERYTHING, it's time to solve the mystery...

Asking About Location in Serbian

Marina locative case in Serbian ,

Fourteen years ago on March, 13th 1996, this song was the Song of the Day at the local radio station. I remember listening to it every hour! Take a guess where I was by asking questions, as follows:

1. "Da li ste bili u + city ? "
(when you guess the name of the city, proceed to 2)
2. "Da li ste bili u + place ?"

1/Word Bank: ---> Locative Case

Bečej ----> Bečeju
Senta ----> Senti
Zrenjanin ---> Zrenjaninu
Novi Sad---> Novom Sadu
Šabac ---> Šapcu
Niš ---> Nišu
Kragujevac ---> Kragujevcu
now, you do the same...
Kraljevo --->
Milanovac --->
Paraćin--->
Subotica --->
Zaječar--->
Beograd --->

2/Word Bank for places ---> Locative

škola - školi
crkva - crkvi
centar - centru
važno mesto - važnom mestu
*now, you do the same...
zgrada
vrtić
prodavnica
sajam
knjižara
bolnica

Free Serbian Language Course

Marina Free lessons of Serbian , Serbian course

Since many of my students told me how easy it is to learn Serbian by singing, I decided to introduce nice and catchy tunes with nice and easy Serbian collocations into my new Five Minute Serbian course.

Yesterday I released a free version of this course, so you can join it and see whether this way of learning suits you.

At first I thought it would be a great idea to organize each course from the very beginner to the most advanced levels (from A1 to C2), but my students suggested I should divide them into two groups - from A1 to B1 and another one from B2 to C2. That will allow me to add more language related lessons for each level.

For example, A1 level now covers not only "The weather/wine is good" but also two new chapters dedicated to members of family and how to introduce them. A2 level doesn't cover only what WAS the weather like, but also who WAS at home/work etc. B1 level is covering asking "kakva vs. kakav" when asking questions such as "What was the party like?" and similar.

Let me share with you two brand new lessons:

At A1 level

At A2 level

At the moment the course has more than three hours of content, but it is getting longer and richer each day. Once you join the course, you are given the links to the follow up exercises and quizzes. Since the course is expanding, the price of the course is going to increase accordingly. It is $US49 right now, but for the followers of this blog there is a 50% discount which is valid only in April.

The beauty of this series of the courses is that you will be able to add your suggestions and influence the topic of the upcoming chapters.

The following course will be dedicated to verbs and prepositions which require the Accusative case and I am sure you will love it! For now, do join the free version of this course and leave me your feedback in the comment below or through our joint Facebook page called StudySerbian.

Clothes in Serbian 1

Marina clothes in Serbian , locative case in Serbian

If I write down the words in Serbian for items 1 to 15, could you please ask 15 questions starting either by 'GDE JE...' or 'GDE SU...' (Where is... Where are...). Look at the example 1. and 4.
1. Gde je kapa?
4. Gde su pantalone?
You can write the answer in the comment, or practise asking questions by listening to the newly set up Youtube, LearnSerbian :o)
HAVE FUN!!!!

KAPA
KRAVATA
KAIŠ
PANTALONE
ŠAL
GAĆE
GRUDNJAK
HALJINA
ŠEŠIR
PATIKE
JAKNA
FARMERKE
KUPAĆI KOSTIM
KOŠULJA
MAJICA

Serbian 101 - Serbian Tests

Marina Serbian 101 , Serbian tests

Serbian 101 - Serbian Tests

With this set of exercises you can test your knowledge for Serbian 101. If you pass all the tests with 80% or more, you are ready for Serbian 102!

Tests in Serbian

LEKCIJA 1

Basic questions https://quizlet.com/457876616/flashcards

Pesma Čokolada https://www.learnclick.com/quiz/show/22735 

Glagol biti  https://goo.gl/forms/2O60qZslOmvhZuvL2

Brojevi 1 do 20 https://quizlet.com/122319665/test?prompt-with=1&limit=20&matching=0&mult_choice=on&selectedOnly=false&showImages=true&tf=0&written=on 

LEKCIJA 2

Describing members of your family = Opisati članove tvoje porodice - ko se kako zove i koliko ima godina

Family with Verb to be = Porodica sa glagolom biti: https://quizlet.com/146121479/gravity
Prices =Cene https://quizlet.com/57188190/learn

LEKCIJA 3

Personal info - Lični podaci https://quizlet.com/178822576/micromatch
Ostaviti svoje lične podatke
Possessive adjectivs - Prisvojni pridevi https://quizlet.com/62777400/test?prompt-with=0&limit=8&matching=0&mult_choice=on&selectedOnly=false&showImages=true&tf=0&written=on
Postaviti pitanja o drugima = asking questions about somebody, using the appropriate phrases

LEKCIJA 4

Njegov/njen https://quizlet.com/178818426/gravity
Koliko je sati u Srbiji? https://www.dropbox.com/s/y0hmuy5drdheggy/Serbian101-Module2-TTT-ClassroomPractice1.mp4?dl=0
Pridevi dobar - dobra - dobro https://quizlet.com/191661279/micromatch

LEKCIJA 5

Pozdravi https://quizlet.com/63483739/learn
Njen/njegov + odeća https://quizlet.com/187179569/gravity
Odlazak u kupovinu: Sviđa mi se crvena majica. Koliko košta? Pa to je skupo/jeftino! https://quizlet.com/187179569/gravity

LEKCIJA 6

About my brother http://serbianlesson.com/exercises/serbian-beginner/module1-text1-exercise2.html
Speaking - Priča o bratu/sestri/prijatelju/prijateljici/mužu/ženi…

LEKCIJA 7

Food - Hrana https://quizlet.com/88061272/gravity
Volim / ne volim hranU. https://www.dropbox.com/s/op0va7lp2xsdoox/Serbian101-Module3-FoodVocabulary1.mp4?dl=0

Learn Serbian Podcast - Asking Questions With "Vi" vs. "Ti"

Marina Learn Serbian online , Learn Serbian Podcast

Asking Questions in Serbian

Marina Question form in Serbian ,

Fill in the gaps = popuni prazna mesta:

Q: A _______________ (what) najviše ____________ (like) u tenisu ?
A: Pa najviše ____________(like) u tenisu forhend, bekhend _______ (and) volej. S njima pobeđujem ove __________________ (opponents).

Q: A da _________ se protivnici ljute _____________ (when) ih pobediš ?
A: Ne

Q: A ti __________ (when) te ___________ (they) pobede ?
A: ______
Q: Znači, ______________ (real) fer plej:o)

Q: Dobro, a da ________ se __________________ (you play)?
A: Paa, igram _______, igram se _____________ (at night). Pošto ______________ (during the day) __________________ (I have) školu i treninge imam ________________
(in the afternoon), i završim domaći ________________ (after) treninga, i zato se _______________ (I play) noću.

Q: Da li je tenis za tebe igra ____________ (or) obaveza?
A: Pa tenis za _____________ (me) je obaveza.

Q: _________ (what) ti je cilj u tenisu?
A: Cilj u _____________ (tennis) mi je ____ _______________ (to become) prvak.

Relative Pronoun and Question Word Koji in Serbian

Marina question word koji , relative pronoun koji

If you ever wondered how to practice when to use kojI, kojA, kojE etc. both when asking questions and connecting sentences, here comes an easy exercise, based on the intro video about animals:

There is a similar video, where you have to fill in the gaps with "koji", but in the appropriate form:

Along with an online exercise:

Clothes in Serbian 2

Marina clothes in Serbian , serbian cases

Part two combines asking questions from part no. 1 (gde je / gde su) with answers (ona je u + ormanU (suffix '-u' for masc. nouns denotes the locative case). Take a look at the example examples:

1. CIPELE (Fem - Pl)
a. Gde su cipele? (Where are the shoes)
b. One su u ormanu. (They are in the cupboard)

2. KUPAĆI KOSTIM (Masc. - Sg)
a. Gde je kupaći kostim?
b. On je u ormanu.

5. ODELO (Neuter - Sg)
a. Gde je odelo?
b. Ono je u ormanu.

Now you can continue:

3. JAKNA (Fem - Sg)
4. CIPELE (Fem - Pl)
5. ODELO (Neut - Sg)
6. ŠAL (Masc - Sg)
7. HALJINA (Fem - Sg)
8 / 10. GAĆE (Fem - Pl)
9. POTKOŠULJA (Fem - Sg)
11. RUKAVICE (Fem - Pl)
12. ŠORC (Masc - Sg)
13. ČARAPE (Fem - Pl)
14. ČIZME (Fem - Pl)
15. PRSLUK (Masc - Sg)
**************************

Sg Masculine (he) ON
Sg Feminine (she) ONA
Sg Neuter (it) ONO
Pl Masculine (they) ONI
Pl Feminine (they) ONE
Pl Neuter (they) ONA

Question Words in Serbian

Marina asking questions in Serbian , question word koji

Question Words in Serbian

With all the question words changing according to the cases, I bet it's pretty confusing when it comes to asking WH questions in Serbian. That's why I'll share a series of posts with question words in Serbian.

The first one is going to be an easy one, with the basic questions such as:

KAD - When?
ZAŠTO - Why?
ŠTA - What?
KOJI - Which?
KO - Who?
KOLIKO DUGO - How long?
KOLIKO ČESTO - How often?
KAKO - How?
GDE - Where?
ODAKLE - Where from?
KUDA - Where to?
KOLIKO - How much/ many?
ČIJI - WHOSE?

Exercises with Question Words in Serbian

The link to the micromatch game:

FLASHCARDS with Serbian Question Words

The link to the flashcards:

TEST with Serbian Question Words

The link to the test:

Expect a more complicated set of questions words with the video lesson very soon!

For downloadable materials and more video lessons, check out my free course SerbianPhrases on easy.serbianphrases.com :)

Let's practise asking questions in Serbian

Marina Word order in Serbian ,

Asking Yes/No questions in Serbian

Marina Question form in Serbian ,

If you want to ask Yes/No questions in Serbian always start with 'DA LI', no matter what tense. For the Present Tense keep this word order :

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(

Fraze na srpskom - speaking practice

Marina Serbian language 365 , Serbian lesson

Watch this video and practise asking basic questions and giving answers. The next step is to ask the same questions with "Vi". You can watch one of the previous video lessons with Serbian phrases covering the topic " Vi" vs. "Ti" in Serbian.

Serbian Phrases free e-book

Serbian 101 - International Vocabulary

Marina Serbian 101 ,

Serbian 101 - International Vocabulary

This is a fun game for real beginners in Serbian. There is a list of international words which are commonly used in the Serbian language and I made a memory game with it. Have fun playing the game and asking each other questions:

1. "Kako se kaže ... na srpskom?" = How do you say ... in Serbian?
2. Šta znači ...? = What does ... mean?

International Vocabulary

Telefon = telephone
Kafa = coffee
Auto = automobile (car)
Mobilni = mobile/cell phone
Taksi = taxi
Monitor = monitor
Kompjuter = computer
Mikrofon = microphone
Đus = juice
Pica = pizza

Game with International Vocabulary in Serbian

Exercises with International Vocabulary in Serbian

Test with International Vocabulary in Serbian

Practise Locative in Serbian

Marina locative case in Serbian ,

Imagine where some objects are, and play this game with your friend by

asking these questions:

Singular = Jednina:

Da li je sat u dnevnoj sobi ? = Is the clock in the living room ?

Da / Ne

Znači ovo je dnevna soba? Baš je lepa ! = So this is the living room ?

It is really beautiful/nice (lep - lepa - lepo)

Plural = Množina:

Da li su stolice na balkonu ? = Are the chairs on the balcony ?

Da /Ne

Znači ovo je balkon ? Baš je prostran! = This is the balcony ?

It is really spacious (prostran - prostrana - prostrano)

p.s. you can also check out the gapped quizz with the song.

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Monday, November 11, 2019

Serbian 301 - Asking Questions with Verbs which Require Accusative

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Serbian 301 - Asking Questions in Cyrillic Script

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Asking Questions about different topics

Asking Questions with Ti

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Wednesday, January 03, 2018

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Retelling Story in Serbian - Song

Retelling Story in Serbian

Retelling Story by asking questions

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Serbian Genitive with Sg. Feminine Nouns

Asking simple questions with the verb TO BE in Serbian

Rešenje = Solution

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Question Words in Serbian

Exercises with Question Words in Serbian

FLASHCARDS with Serbian Question Words

TEST with Serbian Question Words

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Serbian 101 - International Vocabulary

International Vocabulary

Game with International Vocabulary in Serbian

Exercises with International Vocabulary in Serbian

Test with International Vocabulary in Serbian

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