B2 — upper-intermediatenature30 words
Agriculture, fauna & flora
| Serbian | Meaning |
|---|---|
| poljoprìvreda | agriculture (poljoprivredni proizvodi — farm produce) |
| dòmāćī | local, domestic; home-made (on a market stall or menu it is a selling point) |
| njȉva | an arable field, one under a crop (polje is a field in general) |
| stȍka | livestock (feminine collective noun); of people it is a coarse insult |
| trȁktor | tractor |
| žȅtva | the grain harvest, reaping (fruit and grapes are berba) |
| bèrba | picking harvest: grapes, fruit, berries (grain is žetva) |
| òrgānskī | organic — on labels and market stalls, of chemical-free produce |
| vȍćnjāk | orchard (voće — fruit; bašta — the garden by the house) |
| vìnogrād | vineyard — the grapes themselves are grožđe |
| ȕsev | the sown crop standing in the field (usually plural usevi) |
| kukùruz | maize, corn (masculine in Serbian) |
| uzgájati | to grow (a crop); to raise, breed (livestock) — imperfective; everyday speech prefers gajiti |
| zasáditi | to plant (a tree, seedlings) — perfective of saditi |
| žȉto | grain, cereal crops — the general word |
| sèljāk | peasant, villager; often pejorative in speech — the neutral word is poljoprivrednik |
| đùbrivo | fertiliser (cf. đubre — rubbish, manure) |
| kȍrov | weed |
| pȁšnjāk | pasture (pasti — to graze) |
| posèjati | to sow — perfective of sejati (seed; seedlings are zasaditi) |
| òrati | to plough (imperfective); oranica — ploughed land |
| stočárstvo | livestock farming (crop farming is ratarstvo) |
| ìnsekt | insect (colloquially buba) |
| komárac | mosquito (fleeting a: komarca) |
| sàlaš | salaš — a Vojvodina farmstead out in the fields, often now a country restaurant |
| plȃst | haystack, rick (masculine) |
| dȉvljāč | game (feminine) — wild animals hunted, and their meat on a menu |
| kùpina | blackberry (raspberry is malina) |
| bȕkva | beech tree — not a letter of the alphabet (that is slovo) |
| vr̀gānj | porcini, cep — the specific species (a mushroom in general is pečurka) |
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