B2 — upper-intermediategrammar30 words
Word families & derivation
| Serbian | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ráditi | to work; to do |
| rȃd | work, labour (from raditi); pl. radovi — works, roadworks |
| rȃdnīk | worker |
| rȃdnī | working, work- (adj., from rad; suffix -ni): radno vreme, radni dan |
| radiónica | workshop (from raditi; -onica = place of the action: učionica, čekaonica) |
| sarádnīk | collaborator, associate (sa- 'co-' + radnik; cf. saigrač, saputnik) |
| saràdnja | cooperation |
| uráditi | to do, get done (perfective of raditi; u- here only perfectivises) |
| prèrada | processing, reworking (from preraditi; pre- = re-, through): prerada nafte |
| ȍbrada | processing, treatment (from obraditi; ob- = around/over): obrada podataka |
| rȃdničkī | workers' (radnik + -ski → k→č, like đak → đački; same before -ica: ruka → ručica, noga → nožica, muha → mušica) |
| učitèljica | teacher (f.) (učitelj + -ica; -telj makes agent nouns: učiti → učitelj, roditi → roditelj) |
| glȅdalac | viewer, spectator (from gledati; -lac agent, like čitalac); l→o in oblique cases: gledaoca, pl. gledaoci |
| pùšāč | smoker (from pušiti; -ač agent: igrač, vozač; also instrument: punjač 'charger') |
| rȉbār | fisherman (from riba; -ar = trade, usually from a noun: novinar, knjižar; cf. pekar, kuvar) |
| sposóbnōst | ability (from sposoban; -ost turns any adjective into a noun; all -ost nouns are feminine) |
| pȕšēnje | smoking (from pušiti; -nje from any verb). Serbian uses this noun where Russian uses an infinitive: zabranjeno pušenje |
| vòžnja | driving, a ride (from voziti; suffix -nja with z→ž; cf. gradnja from graditi) |
| bogàtstvo | wealth (from bogat; -stvo = Russian -ство, neuter: prijateljstvo, društvo) |
| 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 | city, urban (grad + -ski, the most productive relational adjective suffix: školski, beogradski) |
| štèdljiv | thrifty (from štedeti; -ljiv = prone to, like Russian -ливый: pažljiv, brbljiv, strpljiv) |
| napísati | to write (down) (perfective of pisati; na- often just perfectivises) |
| zapísati | to write down, note (za- = fix the result: zapamtiti, zabeležiti) |
| upísati | to enter, enrol; upisati fakultet — to get into university (u- = into: ući, uneti) |
| òpis | description (from opisati; o-/ob- = around, about: opisati, obići, obraditi) |
| nátpis | inscription, sign (nad- + pis; the prefix devoices before p: nad → nat) |
| prélaz | crossing: pešački prelaz, granični prelaz (pre- + -laz; same root: ulaz, izlaz, prolaz) |
| òdlazak | departure, leaving (from odlaziti; od- = away; cf. dolazak 'arrival'); fleeting a: odlaska |
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