Serbian Beginner Course

Explore Serbian grammar basics, including noun genders, personal pronouns, and the seven cases, and understand how noun and adjective agreement, declension, and conjugation shape meaning.

Master Serbian verb conjugation by using stem endings and suffixes, with examples like I write, you write, and they write; learn about e, a, or r endings, negatives, and questions.

Explore the gender of Serbian nouns by identifying masculine, feminine, and neuter genders, with endings like consonants for masculine, 'a' for feminine, and 'o' or 'e' for neuter.

Explore the irregular Serbian verb to be, its present tense use with adjectives and nouns, pronoun omission, and the translation of present simple and continuous as one form.

Explore countries, nationalities, and languages through diverse examples from Serbia, Croatia, America, England, Germany, Russia, and more, and practice phrases like what language do you speak.

Explore foundational number concepts through repeated phrases and examples, including three, eight, and million, plus dessert and pet store references.

Explore how Serbian adjectives agree with gender and number, how the disappearing a rule affects masculine/feminine/neuter forms and plurals, and how enclitics and the verb to be guide sentence structure.

Explore Serbian noun plurals across genders, focusing on masculine suffixes e, ev, and ovi, with rules, exceptions, and examples like phone, computer, and professor.

Explore how Serbian verbs express action and state through infinitives, conjugations, tenses, aspects, moods, and voices, with emphasis on stems and the present tense.

Explore how the Serbian present tense expresses habitual, ongoing, and future actions using three stem-based conjugations, with negation by ne and question forms using da li or inversion.

Learn irregular and pattern verbs in Serbian, classify verb types, and practice present tense conjugations across a, e, and ati-im patterns with many examples.

master the four irregular present-tense verbs—be, want, can, and send—and their short forms and contractions. learn the irregular one-word negation with examples like i'm not and you're not.

Explore enclitics and reflexive verbs in Serbian grammar, including position one and second position rules, the question particle li, and the se reflexive pronoun with verb categories.

Explore Serbian question words to ask for information, make choices, and inquire about people, possession, time, place, and quantity. Learn forms like koji/koja/koje, ko, kada, koliko, koliko dugo, i kako.

Explore how Serbian links verbs with either infinitive or da construction, where the first verb is conjugated and the second is infinitive or da form, especially with modal verbs.

Explore the Serbian days of the week with practical phrases for daily routines, including work, rest, shopping, and exercise from Monday to Sunday.

Learn Serbian months and ordinal numbers, and how to say dates with the ordinal before the month; the number is always ordinal and months are not capitalized.

Master adverbs of frequency in Serbian, including always, usually, often, sometimes, rarely, hardly ever, and never. Learn negation rules, including double negatives, and question forms with these adverbs.

Master adverbs of time in Serbian through examples like now, today, tomorrow, yesterday, soon, early, currently, recently, and common negation and question forms.

Learn basic Serbian weather vocabulary and seasonal terms. Describe conditions such as sunny, cloudy, rainy, windy, and foggy, and ask what season it is in Belgrade.

Learn the most common Serbian conjunctions, from simple to compound, and see how they connect words, phrases, and sentences with practical examples.

Learn to tell time in Serbian, naming hours from five to twenty as sati, and using a.m. and p.m. for afternoon with examples like 6:30 a.m. and 7:45 p.m.

Learn common means of transport in Serbian, including car, bicycle, bus, train, tram, taxi, ship, and more, with vocabulary for airports, stations, ports, bridges, and tunnels.

Master Serbian plural patterns for masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns, including short -e and long -ovi endings, feminine r-to-a changes, and collective noun behavior.

Explore seven Serbian grammatical cases—nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, instrumental, and locative—and their usage and endings in sentence structure.

Discover the Serbian locative in singular, marking location with in, at, or on. Learn masculine -oo, feminine -e, and neuter -ou endings through practical examples.

Explore locative adjectives in singular, including masculine suffix -om, feminine and neuter patterns, and possessive adjectives in locative, with examples like in beautiful Serbia, Belgrade, and on the brown table.

Explain how Serbian treats european country names ending in -ka as feminine adjectives with the locative suffix -oi, and relate country and language names.

Explore basic Serbian phrases for where you live and what you do for a living, including places like London, Belgrade, and Germany, and professions from teacher to doctor.

Explore the locative plural in Serbian, denoting location or aboutness and indicating position, not movement. Learn masculine plural endings with ema and see examples like the dogs in the parks.

Explore Serbian locative plural adjectives across masculine, feminine, and neuter, with the shared -im suffix, using examples like parks, streets, chairs, and rooms.

Explore locative sound changes in Serbian, including the civilizatia pattern, where nouns ending in kuh, huh, or ka take -e in locative or plural forms, as shown by ruka, devojka, orlovka.

Explore how the Serbian prepositions u, na, and kod align with English at, in, and on, detailing location and movement rules, exceptions, and practical examples.

Learn Serbian city vocabulary from bus stops and train stations to hospitals, banks, and cinemas, with examples for places like pharmacies, bookstores, bakeries, restaurants, and theatre.

Learn Serbian fruit vocabulary and color adjectives, with attention to gender and number agreement. Understand the definite e form and uncountable nouns when describing fruits like banana and jagoda.

Learn essential house and furniture vocabulary in Serbian, covering rooms, furniture items, and everyday objects from doors, windows, and walls to couch, TV, dining sets, kitchen appliances, and gardens.

Master how to discuss vegetables in Serbian, distinguishing countable and uncountable usage and using singular forms. Explore everyday examples like carrot, potato, tomato, cucumber, spinach, broccoli, cabbage, and pepper.

Explore essential Serbian food and drinks vocabulary, from coffee and tea to pizza, meat, and vegetables. Master gender and plural forms and practice sentences about price, taste, temperature, and alcohol.

Learn basic animal vocabulary in Serbian, including dog, cat, fish, parrot, rabbit, and more, with plural forms and example sentences about animals in different countries.

Learn Serbian family vocabulary and possessive adjectives, including singular and plural forms across masculine, feminine, and neuter, with examples like this is my brother and these are your children.

Practice asking and giving contact information in Serbian, including phone numbers, mobile and landline, email addresses, and addresses, with basic greetings and color adjectives.

Learn Serbian job vocabulary with masculine and feminine forms for professions like doctor, engineer, and teacher. Explore usage through examples such as nurse, police officer, chef, carpenter, and journalist.

Master clothing vocabulary and uncountable, singular, and plural forms, with examples like t shirts, jeans, skirts, dresses, sweaters, and jackets.

Shooting star, a short fantasy novel adapted for Serbian language learning, offers beginner vocabulary and intermediate versions without vocabulary with Serbian, English, and Croatian sections across 20 chapters.