B2 — upper-intermediategrammar30 words
Word families & derivation
| Serbian | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ráditi | to work; to do (imperfective; also radi + Gen., a preposition: for the sake of: radi posla) |
| rȃd | work (the activity), labour; a paper (academic); works (plural: roadworks); (also an adjective: glad — rad sam) |
| rȃdnīk | worker |
| rȃdnī | working, work (working hours, a work permit) |
| radiónica | a workshop |
| sarádnīk | a collaborator, a co-worker; a co-author (sa- ‘co-’) |
| saràdnja | cooperation |
| uráditi | to do, to get done (perfective of raditi; u- only marks the aspect) |
| prèrada | processing (of raw materials), reworking (pre- = re-) |
| ȍbrada | processing, treatment (of data, materials); a cover (of a song) |
| rȃdničkī | workers’, working-class (k→č before -ski) |
| učitèljica | a teacher (feminine; at primary school) |
| glȅdalac | a viewer, a spectator (l→o in other cases) |
| pùšāč | a smoker (-ač marks a doer or a device: igrač, punjač) |
| rȉbār | a fisherman (-ar marks a trade: novinar, pekar) |
| sposóbnōst | an ability, a capability (-ost nouns are feminine) |
| pȕšēnje | smoking (from pušiti) |
| vòžnja | driving, a ride (from voziti) |
| bogàtstvo | wealth, riches (-stvo makes neuter abstract nouns: prijateljstvo) |
| visìna | height (from visok; -ina makes measure nouns from adjectives: dužina, širina, dubina) |
| mòlba | request; formal application (from moliti; suffix -ba: žalba, tužba, služba) |
| gràdskī | urban; city (before a noun: gradski prevoz, city transport) |
| štèdljiv | thrifty, frugal (-ljiv means prone to: strpljiv) |
| napísati | to write (perfective of pisati; na- often only marks the aspect) |
| zapísati | to write down, to note down (za- fixes the result: zapamtiti, zabeležiti) |
| upísati | to enrol (in a school, on a course); to get into (university); to write in (a form) |
| òpis | description (o-/ob- = around, about: obići, obraditi) |
| nátpis | an inscription, a sign (the prefix nad- devoices before a voiceless consonant) |
| prélaz | a crossing (pedestrian, border); a transition (same root as ulaz, izlaz) |
| òdlazak | departure, leaving (od- = away) |
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