Learning Serbian /Croatian/Bosnian

Hooray, our saviour has arrived! We've been waiting for this for so long... :P ;D
Puno hvala. =)

P.S. I love your profile name. =D

You're welcome.
I hope it will be useful. Ask anything you want, I'm here to help.

A sto se tice mog imena, malo crnog humora nije bilo na odmet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_conjugation

Here you'll find a bit about the conjugation of verbs.... it's only the basics. :P

Originally Posted by Luby91

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_conjugation

Here you'll find a bit about the conjugation of verbs.... it's only the basics. :P

But it says a lot. Thanks =)

Hey! This is great!
I'm not a fortune-teller, but I can tell you for sure if you guys go on like this I will speak Serbian very soon. Could you please teach us some verbs (in present, past & future tense) such as

to be, speak, see, walk, talk, like...
want to, would like to, can, do, must...

I know this is gonna be another 10-20 pages, but I reeeaaally would like to know everything!
In exchange I can help with HU, SK, CZ, PL (or English) either translation or grammar if anyone needs aaaanything on Earth.

Thank you in advance! Hvala lepo!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_grammar

I've just found more lol.... and i just realised that it's changed to cyrillic.... All i can say is that if you cannot read cyrillic... the best option is to learn it

Poz.


Luby

Originally Posted by Nene

Hey! This is great!
I'm not a fortune-teller, but I can tell you for sure if you guys go on like this I will speak Serbian very soon. Could you please teach us some verbs (in present, past & future tense) such as

to be, speak, see, walk, talk, like...
want to, would like to, can, do, must...

I know this is gonna be another 10-20 pages, but I reeeaaally would like to know everything!
In exchange I can help with HU, SK, CZ, PL (or English) either translation or grammar if anyone needs aaaanything on Earth.

Thank you in advance! Hvala lepo!

Hey

http://www.lztranslation.com/serbian_grammar.html

This site helps a lot.
You've got Serbian verbs and in each tense

Serbian nouns (with each gramm. case explained and how it's used in the Serbian language

Pronouns

and also prepositions, and which preposition belongs to which case.

these are .pdf files so, if you dont have adobe or another program, it's good to download one :P

Poz.
Luby

Luby,
This is great! I think this will help me a lot!
Many thanks!

I have a question for serbian past tense. Why do you use "I am" when speaking in past tense?

For instance:
Sanjala sam - I dreamt
Mogla sam - I could

ect...

Also, I study bulgarian also, and in Bulgarian there is "mojat/mojata", and "moj/moja" (m/f) , meaning mine and my. What are the serbian equivalent?

Many thanks ! :-)
Great topic btw! I've been learning serbian for a while but not officially.. I can understand grammer quite well but my vocabulary isn't good.

Somebody said these make little sense?
Bejah
Bejaše
Bejasmo
Bejahu etc.
well.. they make zero sense to me and I suppose I can say with 95% certainty that I have never heard anyone use those in real life lol

masarra, I have no idea how to answer the sam question.. sam would actually be only the "am" part of "I am" ..

About mine and my.. Bulgarian has different translation for those? Well, I am jealous!
only "moj/moja" (m/f) are the translation of my (mine) in Serbian

Bejah
Bejaše
Bejasmo
Bejahu etc.

lol, we have these in croatian too

Bijah
bijaše
bijasmo
bijahu

but it can be found only in books, i doubt smb use these...

Helooo, here I am!

Dangerous & Moving, you will help me with differences in croatian

Here we go...

Infinitive (ends with TI and ĆI)

Be - BITI
Speak, talk - PRIČATI, GOVORITI, KAZATI
See - GLEDATI
Walk - HODATI
Like - VOLETI, SVIÐATI
Want - ŽELETI
Can - MOĆI
Do - RADITI
Must - MORATI
Begin - POČETI
Bring - DONETI
Buy - KUPITI
Drink - PITI
Eat - JESTI
Find - NAĆI
Forget - ZABORAVITI
Go - IĆI
Say - REĆI
Understand - RAZUMETI
Sleep - SPAVATI
...

Present - PREZENT (Sadašnje vreme)

Work - RADI+TI

Ja radi - M
Ti radi - Š
On radi
Ona radi
Ono radi
Mi radi - MO
Vi radi - TE
Oni rad - E

Sing - PEVA+TI

Ja peva - M
Ti peva - Š
On peva
Ona peva
Ono peva
Mi peva - MO
Vi peva - TE
Oni peva - JU

Originally Posted by masarra

I have a question for serbian past tense. Why do you use "I am" when speaking in past tense?

For instance:
Sanjala sam - I dreamt
Mogla sam - I could

ect...

Also, I study bulgarian also, and in Bulgarian there is "mojat/mojata", and "moj/moja" (m/f) , meaning mine and my. What are the serbian equivalent?

Many thanks ! :-)
Great topic btw! I've been learning serbian for a while but not officially.. I can understand grammer quite well but my vocabulary isn't good.

Yeah! This sounds familliar. For some reason we use these in Slovak & Czech past tense the same way (Except the 3rd person where it is left out). I would say there is no particular reason of using it and we don't sense it as "I am".

It is something similar to when I started learning English and asked why is the verb "to do" used in every question, but in fact it is just to help to form a question; not to be translated as such.

As to "my" in Serbian:
moj/moja/moje = m/f/n(neuter),
the easy part is that the above is used for both "my" and "mine".

Good luck with your Serbian Masarra!!!

Originally Posted by Vlada

Present - PREZENT (Sadašnje vreme)

Work - RADI+TI

Ja radi - M
Ti radi - Š
On radi
Ona radi
Ono radi
Mi radi - MO
Vi radi - TE
Oni rad - E

Sing - PEVA+TI

Ja peva - M
Ti peva - Š
On peva
Ona peva
Ono peva
Mi peva - MO
Vi peva - TE
Oni peva - JU

Many thanks Vlada,

I tried to practise a wee bit:

walk - HODATI

Ja hodam
Ti hodaš
On, Ona, ona hoda

Mi hodamo
Vi hodate
Oni hodaju

want = ŽELETI

Ja želim
Ti želiš
On, ona, ono želi

Mi želimo
Vi želite
Oni žele

I hope I got it right....

sure, Vlada

Yep, Nene, you got it

Youhooo!!! Great! Gimme a year and I'll speak fluent Serbian!
Anyway, I can read cyrillik now! It took me a while, but my reading got quite nice.

Btw, what's the story with "bejah..." What does it mean? Cannot find it in dictionaries
I gues I need the infinitive.

it's form of verb to be in imperfect