Miscellaneous (not lyrics) SR/CR/BH <-> EN Translations

Originally Posted by Spring

2. baba = in this context grandma but yes.. it can mean dad as well (though such use is obsolete)

baba is grandma, and baba is never dad, only babo is used sometimes from bosnians (in this case most from moslems) insted of Otac, Tata, Stari, Cale etc....

well sorry morphi.. you are wrong. Some people (mostly in Serbian villages) do say "baba" for dad (but with a different accent than "baba" which means grandma)

hmm i`m from serbia and i`ve never heared that someone has called his dad baba and yes i`ve been trough many villages in serbia and the most common word for dad is cale (stari or tata) maybe this "baba" is from a region in serbia i`ve never been or they used it 100 years ago...

Your loss if you've never been in a Vojvodina village!

i`ve been there, and i didn`t heared it, but it doesn`t matter :P

kako se na srpskom kaže "she loves me so thoroughly well"?

"ona me dobro voli u potpunosti"? (that sounds kinda dumb, though)

Ina, Spring does not say baba but her neighbor whose parents are from a village does lol

Pthalo, there are some things that simply can not be translated without losing their "feeling". In this case, a similar line could be "ona me stvarno istinski voli" or something like that

Yeah, you're right. Some things are just really hard to translate. I like your suggestion.

(Oh that reminds me, is there a feeling-difference between stvarno and zaista? do the words feel different?)

hm... they both mean "really"
but you can "feel" them differently only by the fact that the word "stvarno" comes from "stvarnost" = reality and "zaista" - "istina" = truth
So, maybe that way you can decide when to use each of them, depending on whether you want to say that something is truthful or realistic

Eeee, sad kao komšije ....

Pthalo, ovako bi moje komšije s kojima delimo terasu rekli: Znači brate voli me ono pootpunooo!

lol

No really.. I don't call mine in any way

That "ono" sounds so "nice" lol So much about romance! hehe

Hello, can someone please tell me what this means
'zahvalnost za Vaše želje' is it thanks for your wishes?

Originally Posted by Zvezda

Hello, can someone please tell me what this means
'zahvalnost za Vaše želje' is it thanks for your wishes?

Yep
Literally: "gratitude for your wishes"

Zdravo,
Ne razumem ovu reć!

"Tada sam imala 17 godina i očekivala sam da dobijem neki srceparajući tekst.

Hvala!

rec is with č (reč)

and the word srceparajući means heartbreaking or, in this context, we can also say - mushy

Originally Posted by Spring

Yep
Literally: "gratitude for your wishes"

Hvala puno!

Originally Posted by morphi

baba is grandma, and baba is never dad, only babo is used sometimes from bosnians (in this case most from moslems) insted of Otac, Tata, Stari, Cale etc....

Yeah, that confused me in the beginning when I lived with a Bosnian family – the use of "baba/babo" when the kids talked to their dad!

I heard "ćaća" = daddy

Could someone please tell me how to say (female speaker) 'I am trying to learn your language?'

I am trying to learn your language
1. Trudim se da naučim vaš jezik or
2. Pokušavam da naučim vaš jezik.

There are few more variants, but the first one is the best. Keep trying!