Serbian for Beginners. Part 1: Personal Pronouns, Gender of Nouns, Verb to Be

1. Hello and Welcome!: Joe, I'm Christina, and today I'll teach you the basics of Serbian. I am a native Serbian speaker, and I have been teaching it for years Now. Today's class is all about the most basic parts of the language, such as personal pronounce, basic vocabulary with the gender of a noun and the verb iti to be in Serbian. Knowing all these things is the cornerstone of your further study. Serbian for beginners. Part one is only the first class in the Serbian for beginners Siri's that I'll be publishing here on skill share. This class offers over 30 new words, including common Serbian names. Three verb declination, Zen present that is Verba Bitty in the affirmative negative and the long form in class exercises, downloadable exercises with Key as your project and a dough notable file with grammar explanations and word lists. I'll walk you through the pronunciation of unique Serbian sounds as we encounter them. By the end of this class, you'll be able to make simple sentences in Serbian in the affirmative and negative, and you'll have an excellent basis with further study. I hope to see you in class 2. Project and Overview: in this lesson will look at your project and what to expect from this class. After watching this whole class, you'll get a downloadable PDF file with exercises and answer key. That is your project. It is important to complete those exercises because they are your chance to practice everything you've learned to achieve the most success with this class. Pause the videos as often as necessary and repeat the new words and phrases after me as I teach them. Also, please pause the videos and take your time. Whenever I ask you to do an exercise, Just watching the whole class passively won't help you much. Today, you'll learn personal pronouns. Yeah, t own honor owner me be on e on it honor verb to be in the affirmative and negative forms for present, and we'll also do a bit of vocabulary to help us make sentences. Serbia Announce have three genders masculine, feminine and neuter. I'll teach you all three of them and how to recognize which is which. Finally, in the bonus section, I'll give you some basic information on the long form of the verb beauty in the resources section. You'll find the project exercises in one file and the glossary with grammar in another file . This file contains all the words and verb forms that we will do today To recap in this lesson. We talked about the exercises you'll do at the end of the class, about pausing the videos to repeat and complete exercises, and that you'll learn how to form basic sentences using personal pronouns and verb to be in the next video. We'll learn all personal pronouns in Serbian. 3. Personal Pronouns: in this video, I'll teach you personal pronouns Or as we say it in Serbian. Leach, Nas dominates. So here they are. Singular. Yeah, t on on er Owner clearing mi V on e on it. Honor. And here are the meanings. Yeah, I t you on he owner, She Oh, no, it me three v you on e they for masculine or a group of males on there, they for feminine or a group of females Ana they for neuter or a group of neuter things? Let's say them again. Yeah, t on on a oh, no me movie on me On there on the please notice that honor she looks just, like honor they About 90% of the time, you will be seeing Ana in the meaning of sheet. Sometimes you'll know which is which from the context. And when we learned the verba bt, you'll see that they bear different verb forms. Another important thing about pronounce is the T V distinction. Would you already know is that we say d when we mean you in singular And when we say v we mean you in the plural. However, we also say t tow a person who is younger than us or about the same age as us. We say v to someone who is much older than us or someone we show respect to. This is called an honorific. Here are two examples D. C Anna, you're Anna and it is about our age. V sta Ana, you're Anna and eyes older than us. When we use V as an honorific, we capitalize it. Provos TV This is you guys almost TV. This is you one person that's an honorific. Now let's do some exercise. I'll give you some names and pronouns and you try to figure out what pro now you can use, for example, drawn on Maria E uh, me just to help you out. Female names typically ending. Ah, here is a list of your promise. Please pause the video now and try to use one pronoun for each example. Okay, here is the key. Ana yah! Me even in Marco on e Yana on a t e on be Zohra on iana is Orrin on e Ana Maria Deidre Gonna on him eea me on the honor Honey, They an 80 The Maya e uh me Yana Asada Honor. Look at these two examples. IANA is or on on the honor I used on E in both of them. But we're not talking about a group of men. We're talking about a mixed couple. So we use on E. When we have a group of people with at least one male. It could be one man and one woman that's on me. It could be 10 women and one man. That's also on E to recap in this lesson, we learned the personal pronouns. Yeah, t own honor owner Mi V only on a on a. We said that T is for the singular and informal and V is for the plural and for singular formal honorific on E can be a group of males or a mixed group. Ana means she, But we also have honor as they, which is a plural, off on a. In the next lesson, we'll have a vocabulary class 4. Vocabulary: in this lesson, I will teach you several basic words that you need to know before we proceed to learn other things. These words are Dobra. Good. Well, oddly China. Excellent. Notice the just sound on our core. So? So let's say them together. Dobra or religion. Oh, narco. Here's more trophic a man New Woody Men are people. Notice the LJ. That's yeah, yeah. Madonna, A woman here we have Jenny women goes poured in. Mr Ghosts. Pooja Mrs. And here we have Yeah, And you worse Pejeta. Miss No, Let's see them as well. Trophic you, Woody! Jenna! Zhanna, go! Sporting Gross! Pooja Gross Pejeta. Okay. And here is the last group data child. That's a Children march Kitten Celo Village, Please repeat that. That's a march, Celo. Now here are the same words in English. Please pause the video now and try to translate them into Serbian. Okay, here is the key. Zhanna on our core Did there Dobra. You would be much go sporting. That's a Jenna Trophic Gorse Pooja Odd literature. Celo goes pejeta to recap in this lesson, we learned several new words, some of which are in singular and plural form. They are Dobra Woodley, China or Narco Jobbik. Nobody. Zhanna, Zhanna Go Sporting Gospel Gia Gospel pizza data That's a march Celo. In the next lesson, we'll learn about the verb to be Biti. 5. Verb To Be (Biti): in this lesson we'll learn the verb BT which means to be today. Will Onley learn the present form? The affirmative Looks like this some see? Yeah, small stay soon. Here it is with pronounce and meaning. Yeah, Awesome. I am T c. You are on. Yeah, he is on a Yeah, she is. Oh, no. Yeah, it is, Miss Ma. We are least you are on a su They are on ESU. They are on a So they are Let's say it together. Yeah, some TC on yet Oh, no, Yeah Oh, no Yeah Misma me Step on the soup on eso on a su Now let's take a look at some example. Sentences? Yeah, Some old original TC dobra on your trophic on a you, Jenna. Oh, no year. March me small OD These two, Jenna only sue a narco. Honestly, our religion on a suit debt. So that was the Verba bt in the affirmative form to make it negative. We just need to add me to the verb and we'll get this niece um, Macy, Nia, knees MMA in Easter ni. So again, with pronounce and meaning Yani some I am not de me. See you are not on a NIA. He is not on Ania. She is not on on the It is not mean asthma. We're not V niece. There you are not on any. So they're not on an easel. They're not on a knee. So also they're not. Now, let's read it together. Yani Cem. Teeny See on a near on anemia on or near minusma be niece There only needs so on any. So on a knee. So here are some example. Sentences? Yeah, Any some Or Leachman? Teeny. See Dobra on a neo Zhanna on a Nia Dobra on a neo original meanie. Small Jonah Vini Stella Odie. Only niece Huanuco on any so religion on a niece Alloudi. Now it's your turn. Used the affirmative form. Here are the sentences you need to fill out. Please pause the video and do the exercise. Okay, here is the answer key. Let's read all the sentences together out loud. You can repeat after me. Yes, um honor on your even me small or religion T c Zhanna Only pseudo brah on a year. Dobra these tell OD on a year on our co Now let's do the same. But in negative here are the new sentences for you. Pause and complete them. Okay, here is the key. Now repeat after me On and near Jena. Yeah. Nisa Marco Meanie Small dobra on any Soumaya even. Oh, no. Nia Tropic Dini Si ana on a niece Asada in my area. Vini Staciana on a neo original. All right. Now you know the Verba BT in its affirmative and negative form to recap in this lesson we learned the verbal BT we did the affirmative form some see? Yeah, small stare soup and the negative form Niece um Niecy Nia No misma ni sta nisa This is the presence tense or as we call it present. In the next lesson, we'll learn about the gender of knowns. 6. Gender of Nouns: in this lesson, I'll show you the three genders of announce that we have in Serbian. But first, let's review the vocabulary that we learned in one of our past lessons. I didn't forget that it was a big bite. Here is a list of all the vocabulary Please pause the video and try to say the meaning of as many words as you can. All right now I'll give you the meanings. Drobnic a man, the Jodi Men people Zhanna A woman Madonna Women boss Poured in Mr Goes Pooja Mrs Goes Pejeta, Miss Did they child? That's a Children march kitten Celo Village. Now we can focus on the main part of this lesson to simplify things for you. I'll erase the PLO. Rose from this list now owns in Serbian can be of masculine, feminine or neuter gender. We say they can be Muskie Genske or sedated needled masculine ounce and in a constant, which means sounds like no video but etcetera. That's the general rule. Looking at this list, they are drove IQ and go spotting feminine words end in Oh, in this list they are Zhanna goes Pooja and goes pejeta. Neuter words may either and in a or oh, let's look at the list data march and sell. Now let's link gender with Pronounce on Drove it owner Gina. Oh, no, that Oh, no cell. So in this lesson, we reviewed the vocabulary and learned that words have three genders masculine, which you can recognize by words which end in a constant feminine words that end in ah and neuter, which end in a or O. The next lesson is our bonus. Listen where I'll teach you the long form of the verb Bt and when we use it. 7. Bonus - Biti Long Form: Welcome to your bonus. Listen, we're about to learn the long form off the verbal Bt to help you understand this, I'll compare it to English. You can say I am a teacher for I am a teacher. M is the long form of to be and, um is the short form. It's the same with our and Haru and is so in Serbian. The short form is some see? Yeah, small stare suit. Our long form is yes, some Yes. See? Yes. There. Yes, More. Yes. There. Yes. So we use this form when we want to emphasize something. Let's say that someone got your name wrong. And he says teeny see Maria. But you are Maria. And you want to stress that you are so to his Dini. Si, Maria, you go ahead and say Yeah. Yes, some of Maria. So this is the one use for the long form of to be. And that is to emphasize something or correct others. The other and more frequent reason to use the long form is to answer Yes. No questions. Dolly City. Maria The Yes. Um, yes, I'm Are you Maria? Yes, I am. Or I am the negative form is always the same. When you need emphasis, you can just see the word a bit louder. D c even Yani some even. And to give negative answers. Dalia! Ana Maria! Nia Nemea In this lesson, we did the long form of BT. Yes, some? Yes. See? Yes. There. Yes, Ma. Yes, there. Yes. So And we said that we use it mainly for emphasis and for short answers. The negative form is always the same and it doesn't have a long or short variations. In the next lesson, we'll do a recap of what we learned today. And I'll tell you how to do the project. 8. Recap and Project: today You learned personal pronouns in Serbian. And they are? Yeah, t on on er owner me The only honor on a You also learned the Verba bt affirmative and negative. Some see? Yeah, small stare. So niece, um Niecy, Nia Knees MMA niece Tha Nisa. We did the long form affirmative and said that we use it for emphasis and to answer Yes, No questions. Yes, I'm Yes. See? Yes. There. Yes. More. Yes. The yes. So waited several new words. They are dobra, or religion on a cool Drove it Ludie. Jenna, Susanna, go Sporting course. Pooja goes pejeta data. That's a march cellar. And finally we learned to the gender of knowns which can be masculine, ending in a constant feminine ending in awe and neuter ending in a or all. Please note that these words are adverbs. Not now owns. So they don't have a gender. Thank you for learning Serbian with me. Make sure to download both files. One with the meetings and rules and one with your project. I recommend learning all the words and rules first and doing the project after that. 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