Vocabulary

The verbs you cannot speak Serbian without - from бити and имати through the modals, the everyday actions and the handful of reflexive verbs conversation runs on - ordered roughly by how often you will actually need them.

The ordinary words of an ordinary day - home, work, school, sleep and the people you share it with.

The people closest to you: parents, siblings, grandparents and spouses - the words every introduction of yourself starts with.

The words you reach for at every meal - bread, milk, meat, vegetables and the drinks that go with them.

Buying things - shops and markets, prices and payment, and telling expensive from cheap.

How to talk about getting around - buses, trains, cars and the words for buying a ticket.

The words for how you feel, what hurts, and the visit to the doctor when it doesn't get better on its own.

Sun, rain, wind and temperature - the words for describing today's weather and predicting tomorrow's.

The vocabulary of dealing with the state - documents, laws, taxes and the offices that issue them.

Computers, phones and the internet - downloading, saving and connecting, plus the accounts and passwords that guard it all.

Beyond the basics of health & body - the words for pharmacies, prescriptions, diagnoses and the specialists you see for them.

The everyday vocabulary of a job: colleagues and bosses, contracts and salaries, meetings and deadlines.

Ideas rather than things - many of them the deverbal and deadjectival nouns word-formation-b2 taught you to build on sight.

Beyond b1-work-office's everyday job vocabulary: the market, the money and the strategy a business itself runs on.

The vocabulary of building and renovating: the site, the materials, the people doing the work.

News, elections and public life - beyond b1-government-administration's offices and paperwork, this is the vocabulary of following and discussing them.

The functional vocabulary of building and dismantling an argument - claims, evidence, concessions and the connectors that hold an essay together.

Theatre, literature and the visual arts - the vocabulary of both making a work and reviewing one, from stvaralaštvo to a critic's tersest verdict.

Beyond b1-government-administration's offices and b2-media-politics's news cycle - the abstract vocabulary of civic life: rights, legitimacy, and the tension between the individual and the state.

The vocabulary of finding things out and being wrong about them - hypothesis, evidence and the provisional theories that stand only until better data arrives.

The vocabulary for talking about Serbian itself - its two scripts, its written and spoken norms, and the terms that describe how a language is described.

The evocative vocabulary of atmospheric prose - silence, half-light, half-sensed shapes and the emotions a narrator names only obliquely.

The vocabulary of public scandal and opinion writing - accusations, outrage and the rhetorical tools of both provoking a reaction and casting doubt on one.

The vocabulary of finding somewhere to live: flats and buildings, landlords and tenants, rent, furniture and heating.

The words for finding your way around an unfamiliar city - streets, squares, corners - and for asking or giving directions.

The buildings and places a town is made of - the post office, the square, the bridge - plus the words that say exactly where they are: left, right, near, far, and the small prepositions that pin one place to another.

Rooms, furniture and everyday objects around the house - masculine, feminine and neuter nouns side by side, on purpose: this is the list to practice он, она, оно on.

What you carry, wear and can say you have - from a passport and a wallet to a dog, a job and a good excuse. Built around имам: everything on this list slots straight after it.

The verbs and small words that carry a short exchange between two people - ask, answer, understand, wait, remember - plus yes, no, maybe and always.

Professions, nationalities and a handful of everyday adjectives - everything you reach for the moment somebody asks who you are.

The everyday adjectives you reach for once nouns aren't enough - size, speed, temperature, feel, mood and color, all the words that make сто into велик нов сто.

The fixed phrases that open and close every conversation - hellos, goodbyes, thanks and small courtesies, the words you reach for before you can build a sentence of your own.

The everyday objects and signs you meet the moment you start reading Serbian - letters, doors, keys, a phone on the table.

The nouns, adverbs and verbs a schedule runs on - hours and minutes, early and late, arriving, hurrying, postponing - everything you need to talk about when something happens, not just what it is.

The words for what you wear and how you look - garments, fabrics, fit and grooming - for shopping, describing people and getting dressed for the day.

Classroom life, exams and studying - from primary school through university - building on a1-o-sebi's студент/професор and a1-grad-i-mesta's факултет with the words a classroom actually runs on.

The words for how you feel and how you react - nouns for the emotion itself, adjectives for the state, and the reflexive verbs Serbian uses for most of them.

Landscapes, plants, animals and the environmental vocabulary for talking about protecting them - a concrete counterpart to a2-weather's climate words.

Team sports, working out, and the music, art and outdoor hobbies people fill free time with - pairs with a2-emotions-feelings when talking about what you enjoy.

Booking a stay, checking in, sightseeing and the practicalities of a trip - the hospitality and tourism vocabulary that sits alongside a1-transport's getting-around words and a2-city-directions' navigating-the-city ones.

Everyday jobs and the workplace words around them - hiring, shifts, careers - a concrete counterpart to b1-work-office's more abstract office vocabulary.

The words for buying food rather than naming it - a market stall, a price, a kilogram, a discount - and the small quantity words that decide how much of something you actually get.

Dates, deadlines and booked appointments: how to book, cancel or postpone a termin, name a floor or a grade, and say when a birthday or an anniversary actually falls.

Choosing, wrapping and giving a gift, and the holidays and celebrations that call for one - from a birthday card to the Serbian Slava, a custom with no real equivalent elsewhere.

The words for travelling with someone else - a companion, the paperwork a trip needs, and the small verbs for meeting, joining and parting on the way.

The vocabulary a conversation actually runs on: a story, a joke, a truth or a lie, discourse words like значи and уствари, and the verbs for remembering, forgetting and retelling what happened.

How to open and close a letter, when to reach for господине or госпођо instead of a first name, and the everyday vocabulary of greeting, thanking and signing off politely.

The kitchen's own vocabulary: equipment, raw ingredients, and the cooking verbs - cut, cook, fry, knead, bake, add, peel - that come in pairs, one for the habit and one for the single finished act.

The idioms, toasts and fixed conversational formulas of everyday Serbian speech, alongside the vocabulary of the customs that give many of them their setting - a family's slava, a wedding's kum and kuma, an old superstition about the evil eye - themed to idioms-set-phrases-b1's own figurative idioms and set phrases.

The vocabulary of the news itself: television, radio, the press, journalists and editors, and the verbs a newsroom runs on - publish, lose, find, record, destroy, confirm, ban, deny - the same verbs whose participles turn into написано, објављено, изгубљено, пронађено.

The bank's own vocabulary: accounts, cards, ATMs and PINs, fees and interest, debt and savings, and the deposit/withdraw, spend/save, pay-off verb pairs that move money in and out of an account - exactly where нема and немам reach for the genitive whenever something is missing from it.

The vocabulary of ecology and the future: pollution and its remedies, climate change, renewable energy, and the natural disasters that make all of it urgent - themed to futur-ii-b1's own conditional and temporal clauses about what we will and won't have done.

The vocabulary of sport and training: the verbs that govern the bare instrumental - бавити се, владати - next to постати, which never does, plus forty words for competitions, injuries and the gym. Themed to instrumental-subtleties-b1's own contrast between the two.

The vocabulary of losing and finding: personal belongings, the verbs for misplacing and recovering them, and the lost-and-found office that stands between the two.

The vocabulary an actual disagreement runs on: a position, a claim, the proof behind it, the proposal that follows and the compromise that ends it - plus the words for the social problems people actually argue about, poverty, inequality, prejudice, unemployment. Exactly where word-order-information-structure-b2 lives: a fronted claim, a postponed new subject, a comma-set-off topic doubled by a resumptive pronoun all decide what a listener hears as new.

The vocabulary of telling the past: events, rulers, wars and legends, and the verbs of remembering and forgetting - exactly the terrain where aorist-imperfect-b2's literary past tenses do their real work, in the register of a story rather than a report.

The vocabulary of research and statistics - a study, its hypothesis, its sample, its results - carried by exactly the numerals numeral-declension-b2 teaches: два научника, три хипотезе, пет резултата, the count-form/invariant split running through almost every example below.

The vocabulary of a contract read closely: clauses and provisions, courts and verdicts, the difference between lawful and unlawful - exactly the terrain where advanced-clause-syntax-b2's чији, prepositional relatives and formal concessive connectors do their real work.

The vocabulary of a formal letter, application or complaint: requests, notices, signatures and deadlines, plus the adjectives and verbs that separate an official register from a casual one - exactly where register-style-b2 draws the line between Ви and ти.

The vocabulary of a gallery visit and an art review: paintings, exhibitions, critics and style, plus the verbs that make and judge a work - exactly the nouns that keep showing up on both sides of adjective-definiteness-b2's own line between нов and нови.

The calendar words every other list assumed you already had: the seven weekdays, the twelve months, and the weekend they frame.

The vocabulary of urban life - how a city grows, moves and reshapes itself, and the words for noticing it happen around you.

The vocabulary of growing up and raising children - habits formed in childhood, the difference between discipline and neglect, and how one generation judges the next.

The vocabulary of narration itself - how a story is told, what its pieces are called, and the words for the register Serbian narrative prose reaches for.

The vocabulary of the ethical debate around technology - data, algorithms and the trust a platform can lose faster than it earns it.

The vocabulary of writing and editing a text - drafts, paragraphs, punctuation, and the verbs an editor reaches for when a sentence needs fixing.

The nouns and verbs that keep showing up as each other's only accepted partner - the vocabulary of collocation itself, and the words most collocations are built from.

The vocabulary academic and professional Serbian runs on - the impersonal and hedging phrases that keep a claim objective and cautious, the discourse connectives that organize an argument, and the nouns a report or a study is actually built from.

The vocabulary for talking about wordplay itself - the homonym that hides two meanings, the mismatch that makes irony land, the device that forces one verb to carry two senses at once - everything wordplay-expressive-syntax-c2's own page names.

The vocabulary ru-sr-translation-traps-c2 is built from - the five word pairs that look identical across Russian and Serbian but mean something different, and the terms for naming a false friend, a case, a preposition or an aspect pair when the trap is structural rather than lexical.

The vocabulary for talking about proverbs themselves - anonymous, traditional, sentence-level phraseology - plus a core set of the proverbs a fluent speaker actually reaches for in conversation.

The vocabulary for talking about how correctly-formed Serbian gets written down - capital and lowercase letters, the phonetic adaptation of a foreign name, and the small punctuation marks whose spacing alone carries meaning.

The vocabulary for talking about style itself - the figures a writer reaches for, the narrator who tells the story, and the terms that name what stylistic-inversion-information-structure-c2's own devices actually do.