Learning Serbian /Croatian/Bosnian

[person's name] je sada s Bogom.

I wonder what this words/sentence means? i might not spell correkt

Staje

moras

jel

nisam

i also need som help to write a little text, i want to write this;

Its so hard to fall asleep when im not having my arm around you, i miss you so much..

What do u mean with "i'm not having my arm around u?" If u mean kinda hugging, then it can be "Tako je teško da zaspim kad te nisam zagrilila, tako mi snažno nedostaješ .."

yes, its like im hugging him when i sleep, i always have one arm around him..

so can it work with your translation then?

errm.. as u mean so, i thing it would sound well using "grliti" (hug) but well I'm not a native speaker so if sb from ex-yugo has a better option..?

Originally Posted by Stephanie.i

I wonder what this words/sentence means? i might not spell correkt

Staje

moras

jel

nisam

Do you mean "Sta je"? It means "What's wrong?" or "What's up?" or "What do you want?". Has different meanings, depending on the rest of the sentence.

Moras - "Have to."

Jel - probably means "Right?", but it depends on the rest of the sentence, because it often comes with another word to it.

Nisam - "I didn't" (male gender).

Originally Posted by Stephanie.i

i also need som help to write a little text, i want to write this;

Its so hard to fall asleep when im not having my arm around you, i miss you so much..

"Tako je teško zaspati kad te ne grlim, tako mi nedostajes". This is tricky, because you can't really say that you are hugging him with just one arm (you can, but it sounds ridiculous).

Originally Posted by Stephanie.i

yes, its like im hugging him when i sleep, i always have one arm around him..

so can it work with your translation then?

It can also go like "Tako je teško zaspati kad te nemam u zagrljaju, tako mi nedostaješ". "Zagrljaj" meaning hug, but, yet again, with both hands. It's like a normal hug Or "Tako je teško zaspati kad te nemam pod rukom, tako mi nedostaješ.", with "kad te nemam pod rukom" meaning "when you are not under my arm" - sounds kind of funny in both English and Croatian

LadyArwen, lijepša je tvoja varijanta "kad te nemam u zagrljaju", to mi nije palo na pamet lol

Originally Posted by tedinkyyy

LadyArwen, lijepša je tvoja varijanta "kad te nemam u zagrljaju", to mi nije palo na pamet lol

Ljepša *shy*

Errm, žao mi je, hrvatski pravopis mi nije još dobar [kao i srpski]

Ma nis, tu samo da naucimo

Originally Posted by tedinkyyy

[kao i srpski]

kao ni srpski, mislim da bi trbalo.
Ali ovo nije tačno, srpski ti je vrlo dobar
Kao i slike u profilu

Errm, hvala..
Za sad stvarno ide dobro, bar na studijama ... ali za 4 meseca ucenja,mislim, jos je rano da se kaze "vrlo dobar".

first of all i must say "pozdravi" well i found myself in a very emabarasing situation , that because the fact i didn`t practiced serbian language for a very long time , woked up to find gone .... no bigger shame than this for a half blood serb ( the other is romanian ) ... tried with "teach yourself serbian, tried with euortalk speak serbian , trien with serbianschool ....yes they are good , but can`t compare with speaking with a native , so if someone have time and nerve ( kidding ... i like to think i am not an anoying person ) if someone can sometimes teach me his spare time some basic stuff , i`ll be more than happy ... a person without going back to the roots has no p[resent and no future ..... i promise i`ll bring cookies ))

helloi think i need some help with casestell me short or long which endings will get singular form of masculine,feminine,neuther nouns in cases which call "датив","вокатив","инструментал"?

Dativ (its endings are the same is in locativ)
M.g. - sg.: om/u* u novom stanu
F.g. - sg. : oj/i u novoj kući
N.g - sg. : om/u* u novom dvorištu

Vocativ
M.g. eg. M-r Petrović - Gospodine Petroviću (usually end on e or u): Ivane, prijatelju itd
F.g. : short names end on o: Nado,Rado itd ; longer names ending on "ica" end on e: Zorice,Milice itd ...the other longer names don't have forms
N.g.: i don't know them

Instrumental
M.g. - sg: im/om** sa mojim drugom
F.g. - sg: om/om sa njenom drugaricom
N.g. - sg : im/om sa njegovim društvom

* after sounds like j,ž,š,č,ć,đ,c it's em/u ---> brinim se o moJem zdravlju
** after the same letters om is em sa mojim oCem

Locative:

brinim se o moJem zdravlju --> brinem se o mom zdravlju (in this case)

otac --> o mom ocu ili mome ocu (about my father)
(I think this shorter form is far more present in spoken Serbian)

Dative Vs. Locative
If you find just "Mojem ocu", it is in the dative
mojem ocu ---> kome? (dative) Mojem (mom) ocu = za mog/mojeg oca, addressed to my father. Not "o kome?" = o mom ocu , about my father (locative)

In many cases, it could be both mojem i mom.

But I am really not 100% sure.

Vocative

Masculine
Pero --->Hej Pero!
Andrija ---> Hej Andrija!
Perica ----> Hej Perice!
čovek ---> Hej čoveče!
borac ---> Hej borče! ???
pušač ---> Hej pušaču!

Feminime
žena ---> ženo

Personal names usually stay the same
Vera ---> Hej Vera/ Vero (Vero in a village )
Ivana ---> Hej Ivana!

Neuter
stays the same
sunce ---> hej sunce!
devojče ---> hej devojče!

ohh thanks a lot tedinkyyy and ina,now i got it

Stvarno, kod vas to dozivanje "Nado,Vero..." se vec koristi samo po selima? lol
A ja sam uvek mislila da je samo kod nas tako, a u Srbiji je normalan nacin dozivanja

tedinkyyy, maybe they don't have phones there so when they yell, it turns into OOOOOOOOO at the end!
Otherwise, my upstares neighbor should be taught that the gadget (phone) has been made exactly to exclude the need to yell like an animal across the field when calling someone (though I must admit I have no idea if she would call her Vera friend Vero )

So.. Ej Veraaaaaaaaaa is correct. Forget about Vero lol

But, there is a reason why ina didn't say they always stay the same...
Mira --> Hej Miro!
Maja--> Hej Majo!
Goran --> Hej Gorane!
Milos --> Hej Milose!
Ivan --> Hej Ivane!
Jovan --> Hej Jovane!

Maybe there is some rule about this but ...