Vocabulary

The ordinary words of an ordinary day - the routine from getting up and showering to cooking dinner and going out, the habits in between, 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.

What you order at a café and buy for breakfast - bread, milk, cheese, coffee and tea, the basics on every table and a few sweets to go with the coffee.

Buying things by the number - money and prices, cash or card, the receipt, a discount, and how much or how little you want.

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 deverbal and deadjectival nouns of the kind the lesson on word formation teaches you to recognize and build.

Beyond the everyday job vocabulary of B1: 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 the offices and paperwork of the B1 list on government and administration, 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 getting from one place to another in an unfamiliar city - turning, crossing and going past, the pavement and the pedestrian zone, the entrance you are looking for - and for showing the way, or finding it again once you are lost.

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, here, there, and the small prepositions that pin one place to another.

Rooms, parts of the house and the big pieces of furniture in it - 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, 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 kilo and a few grams, a jar, a basket, the change from the till - and the words for picking what is fresh, ripe and home-grown.

Dates, holidays and booked appointments: how to confirm, cancel, shorten or extend what is in the calendar, arrive on time or late, and say when a holiday 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 booking, the border and the train compartment, and the small verbs for joining, changing trains 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 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 process or 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 - matching the figurative idioms and set phrases of this unit's grammar lesson.

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 - whose participles fill the headlines: објављено, снимљено, уништено, забрањено, демантовано.

The bank's vocabulary: funds and balances, ATMs and PINs, fees, commission and interest, loans, debt and savings, and the aspect pairs for paying in, withdrawing, spending and paying off 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's 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, after which neutral Serbian keeps the noun in the nominative, plus the words for training, fitness and competition. Themed to the contrast the B1 lesson on instrumental subtleties draws 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 the lesson on word order and information structure does its work: a fronted claim, a postponed new subject, a comma-set-off topic picked up 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 the literary past tenses from the lesson on the aorist and imperfect 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 the lesson on the declension of numerals teaches: два научника, две хипотезе, пет истраживача, 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 this unit's grammar - чији, prepositional relatives and the formal concessive connectors - does its 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 the lesson on register and style 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. Its masculine nouns - рам, детаљ, стил, роман - are where the grammar lesson's line between нов and нови shows; with a feminine noun like слика the two forms are spelled the same.

The calendar words every other list assumed you already had: the weekdays, the twelve months and the weekend they frame, plus the day itself - morning, noon, afternoon, evening and night.

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 one before it.

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 conventional partners, the words most collocations are built from, and the vocabulary for talking about collocation itself.

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 this unit's translation-traps lesson 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 this unit's own devices actually do.

What a host puts in front of you and you may politely turn down - meat and rice, tomatoes and onions, apples and strawberries, cake and chocolate, juice and wine, and the three words for how it tastes: сладак, слан and љут.

Where you shop and what you choose between - the bakery, the butcher's and the pharmacy, the seller behind the counter, and the size, colour and quality that decide between this one and that one.

The small things a home is full of - plates, glasses, spoons and forks, pillows, towels and curtains - everyday nouns you rarely need just one of.