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 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.