Vocabulary

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.

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

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.