People
Introduce your family, say what people do, describe them, and show someone round your home.
- 3.1The familyParents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and whose they are.24 wordsreadinggrammar
- 3.2JobsEleven jobs in their male and female forms, and how to say what you do.22 wordsreadinggrammar
- 3.3What are they like?Tall or short, quiet or funny, with the Serbian endings that go with each person.15 wordsreadinggrammar
- 3.4At homeHouse and flat, room by room, what it's like, and what it has with es gibt, ima and nema.17 wordsreadinggrammar
Can you do it?
What this chapter sets out to teach, one line per lesson. Tick what you can do; it's for you, nothing is scored.
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Grammar in this chapter
- Mein, meine; moj, moja, moje — The owner picks the word and the thing owned picks the ending, in German and in Serbian alike.
- Jonase! Bako! Calling someone — Serbian changes a name or a title when you speak to that person; German leaves it as it is.
- I am teacher — German and Serbian both leave out the article before a job, and both give a woman her own form of nearly every job.
- Groß stays groß, visok changes — After "to be", German adjectives never change; Serbian ones agree with the person or thing.
- Und, aber; i, a, ali — German's linking words leave the word order alone; Serbian has an extra "and", a, for setting two things side by side.
- Es gibt, ima — German says "it gives" and Serbian "it has" for "there is"; for "there isn't", German adds kein and Serbian switches to nema.