particle
jao
ouch!; oh no! (pain, alarm, sympathy; clause-initial: Jao, izvini!)
ой!; ах! (боль, испуг, сочувствие; в начале реплики: Jao, izvini! — «Ой, прости!»)
With stress
jȁo
In Cyrillic
јао
Examples from the lessons
Jao, baš mi je žao, u petak radim do devet.
Ой, как жаль, в пятницу я работаю до девяти.
Politeness & faceIn phrasebooks
Appears in lessons
Next to it in the phrasebook
- mȁoh come on; nah (dismissal, disagreement; clause-initial only: Ma…
- bȁšexactly, just; really (intensifier)
- vàljdapresumably, I suppose
- brȅemphatic particle (very colloquial; informal only)
- ȅtothere you go; so (clause-initial, sums up: Eto, to je sve; the trio…
- zȁrreally?; surely not
- dȅcome on; go on (coaxing; placed before an imperative: De, reci mi!…
- ȅnothere (pointing at something distant, + genitive: Eno ga! — 'There he…
- čȕjlisten; hey (attention-getter, clause-initial; Čuj njega! — 'Listen…
- ìzgledāit seems; apparently (parenthetical, usually clause-initial: Izgleda…