Ep.4: Prijateljstvo

I am Maki.

This season of our podcast is a bit different from the previous ones.

I have another friend, also called Ivana, joining me to have short dialogues in

Serbian. Then we will explain them in English.

This new season will be like mini Serbian lessons.

So if you are ready, grab a cup of coffee and enjoy the podcast.

Dobrodošli Svima! Ja sam Maki.

I'm Ivana. Welcome, Ivana.

How are you today?

Good, thanks. It's a beautiful day.

Very beautiful. Yes.

Okay. Today we are going to talk about something that I really want to

talk about, friendship, because we have a very nice friendship and I'd like to,

you know, talk about Ivana's friends and I would like to add some nice

structures that we need to use when we talk about this issue.

So it's going to be a short dialogue again in Serbian and then we

are going to dive into it.

Are you ready?

Yes, I can.

Okay, let's go.

Ivana, s kjem se družiš u Velikoj Lomnici i Kruševcu? Ivana, with whom do you like in the Great Lomnici and Kuruševcu?

U Velikoj Lomnici najčešće se družim sa mojom prvom komšenicom, Cacom, zato što delimo In the Great Lomnici I will often like my first friend, Caco.

neke zajedničke interese, kao što je zdrava hrana, recepti, šetnje itd.

A u Kruševcu, uglavnom sa dve, tri prijateljice koje su supruge najboljeg prijatelja moga

muža. A ti?

Moja najbolja prijateljica živi u Turskoj, ali ovdje imam zaiste divne prijatelje

sa piljanina ranija, prćanja i krospita.

A je li ti lako da sklapaš prijateljstva?

Da, volim da razgovoram sa ljudima i da radimo nešto zajedno.

Ti si društvena osoba, a šta je za tebe važno prijateljstvu?

Meni je važno da na prijatelje uvek mogu da računam, a ja nastojim da

ih nikada ne izneverim.

A razumem. Ti znaš da smo mi uvek tu za tebe i da možda

nam se obratiš za sve što ti je potrebno.

Joj, hvala. To mi mnogo znači.

I added joj, as you can see.

Ah, ok.

All right. So, I asked Ivana, Ivana, s kim se družiš u Velikoj Lomnici,

Kruševcu? So, with whom, s kim se družiš to hang out with in

Velika Lomnica and Kruševac?

And you gave me a detailed answer.

What did you say, Ivana?

Yes, in Velika Lomnica, I usually socialize with my first neighbor, Caca, as we

share common interests, such as healthy food, recipes, walks, etc.

And in Kruševac, mainly with two or three girlfriends that are wives of my

husband's best friends.

And you? So, in Serbian, I replied,

different groups now because I have some questions.

So you said my first conversation with my first neighbor so i'm

not sure about that one uh like we share share yes okay

some common interest Okay, and then the rest is okay.

And in the main part is mainly, right?

Yes, great. Great, yes, mainly.

In the main part.

With two, three friends.

Okay, okay, that's good.

Who are the wives of my husband's best friends?

The best friends of my husband.

Yes, good.

And then I said, my best friend lives in Turkey, but I have really

wonderful friends from hiking, from running and from CrossFit, I

said. So I said, my best friend lives in Turkey, but I have really

wonderful friends from the mountain, the mountain and the CrossFit.

Okay, now my question after that was...

Is it easy for you to make friendships on Serbian?

Jeli ti lako da sklapaš prijateljstva?

So, sklapaš prijateljstva.

Can I just say sklapaš prijatelje?

No, it has to be that noun prijateljstvo.

Prijateljstva. Because you cannot...

Make humans. Make that humans.

Prijatelja. Different. Jeli ti lako?

It's jeliti lako, daliti lako would be the same.

Yes, it will be the same.

Great. Yeah.

And then I said, yes, I like talking to people and do something together.

Da, volim da razgovaram sa ludima i da radimo nešto zajedno.

Then I comment, make a comment and then ask something such as you are

Okay.

socializing person.

What is important for you in the friendship?

So in Serbian, you are a family person.

What is important for you in friendship?

What is important for you in friendship?

Okay, nice. And then I say, for me it's important that I can count

on my friends and then I try to not let them down ever.

Like I try to never let them down.

So, it's important that I can always write for friends, but I'm going to

make sure that I don't believe them.

Yeah, great. Okay.

Then I replied, understand.

And you know that we are always here for you and that you can

turn to us for everything you need.

In Serbian, I understand.

You know that we are always here for you and that you can turn

to us for everything you need.

Yeah, that's a beautiful thing to hear from a friend.

And then I reacted to you, means, oh, thank you.

That means a lot to me.

That Okay, lots of new words.

We will share the transcript later.

But I'd like to, you know, talk about a few words here.

Durujetise. This is the main topic of the conversation.

I think durujetise is like hang out, but also use socialize as well, right?

Yes, I think that, yeah, it's the same.

Maybe it's like for the younger people, teenagers, they use more that

common word hanging out.

And meaning in that maybe there's some kind of old expression for that is

socializing.

Maybe they have some kind of other context, but that's the same meaning at

the end of the story.

Hanging out, socializing.

Yeah. Okay. So, durujim se.

And then we use instrumental, I guess.

Družim se sa komšinico.

Sa, you mean it sa.

In the question, though, I did not say sa kim, but I used s

kim. I mean, they're both, okay.

Yes, of course.

In the answer, can I also say družim se smoyom?

Like, not samoyom, but smoyom.

Can I say that?

Yes, you can say it also.

It's the same.

Smoyom ili samoyom.

Yeah. Okay, perfect.

And I love this word because we have komşiya in Turkish as well.

But we don't have gender issues, of course, you do.

Yeah, we have.

So what is male neighbor and female neighbor?

Komşiya is the male neighbor.

Komşinica is the female neighbor.

Yeah, I always make the mistake then.

Because I call everyone komşiya, female, male, doesn't it?

Okay, yeah, okay.

Now I know.

Nobody will insult for that, of course.

Sometimes people call each other brate, even though they are girls.

Yes. That happens here.

That's true. And it's the same thing.

Prijatelj, prijateljica. Right?

Yes. Yes. Komšia, komšinica, prijatelj, prijateljica.

Prijateljica. we're ending those as c a at the end yes for female ones

and divino divino is a very common

adjective i would say divino divino i hear it all the time we can

use it for people we can use it

for places for anything that's wonderful right yes i listen to songs on youtube

in serbian because I've tried to follow the lyrics.

And I see in the comments like

Divna Pesma or Divna Pesma.

Yes.

You know that even we have the

female name

from Divna. Divna is a name.

Yes, it's a name.

I wish my name was not Maki, but

Divna is a name.

Yes, it's actually an old style

name, but it's a very nice name.

I never met someone called

Divna, I guess.

Yeah, I suppose, yes, you've never met.

Yeah, because it's very old.

Old style name, maybe from, I don't know, 50 years ago or something like

that. But we have, I think, also a very famous old singer.

Her name was Divna.

It's a very nice name, yeah. That's nice.

And I also like this phrase, Sklapati.

I think Sklapati, Priyataz, making friendships.

Can I use Sklapati Novats, for example, or it's just for friendships I use

this one?

You cannot Sklapati Novats, but you can Sklapati meaning something to assemble and disassemble,

something like that.

It's the same word that we can use for that, for instance.

Is there any example coming to your mind with Sklapati?

Sklapati, some chair that you brought or something that you, for instance something

when you buy from Ikea, for instance

then you have to assemble something

that's Sklapati, something like, I don't know a wardrobe or even a table or

we use that Sklapati, Nameste Sklapati, Nameste, meaning assembly furniture Okay,

something

set up, you it.

And račun, I think most of our listeners also know this.

Račun molim vas in the restaurants.

But this is the verb form.

Računati na someone, right?

Računati means count on.

Yes. And how do I say I count on you?

Računam na tebe.

Računam na vas.

Vas. Obama vas.

This is something I need to read.

Okay, so, racunate na nas.

Racunate na nas, yes.

Yes, okay. Count on us, racunate na nas.

And nastoyati, right?

You said you haven't heard this word for such a long time.

Yes, yes. It's a very nice word, actually.

The other word that I mentioned previously for Nastojat is truditise in Serbian.

So I try to.

Or put effort to do something or try to, yes.

Ja nastojim or ja trudim se, I can say.

Da. And another one, you use this verb, obratiti se.

So you said možes šta nam se obratiš za sve.

That means that you can ask us, you can turn to us, you can

refer to us in one way.

Okay, anything that you need, meaning that you can, that can be orally,

that can be written, doesn't matter actually.

When you say, obratis, meaning in any kind of way that you can ask

Exactly.

something. That's a nice verb as well.

Very positive. Yes.

Yes. So your favorite is Nastoyati.

Da. Yes.

And mine is Obrati T7.

Da. Nastoyati da.

And Tisnash da smomi uvek tu za tepe.

I like this form as well.

Tisnash.

You know that we are always here for you.

Yeah, that's very nice.

Smomi uvek. Okay.

Nice. All right.

I hope that was enough for the whole conversation.

But let's read it again from the beginning.

All right. Ivana, who do you like in the Great Lovnici in Kuruševcu?

I often like my first friend, Cacom, because we share some social

Zato što delimo neke zajedničke interese, kao što je zdrava hrana, recept i šetnje.

interests, such as healthy food, recipes, and dishes.

A u krušecu? And in Kuruševcu?

Uglavnom sa dve, tri prijateljice koje su supruge najbolji prijatelje moga muža.

In general, with two or three of them,

A ti? Moja najbolja prijateljica živi u Turskoj, ali ovdje imam zaista divne prijatelje

sa piljaninarenja, trčanja i krospita.

Je li ti lako da sklapaš prijateljstva?

Da, volim da razgovaram sa ljudima i da radimo nešto zajedno.

Ti si društvena osoba, a šta je za tebe važno u prijateljstvu?

Meni je važno da na prijatelje uvek mogu da računam, a i ja nastojim

da ih nikada ne izneverim.

Razumem. Ti znaš da smo mi uvek tu za tebe i da možeš da

nam se obrtiš za sve što ti je potrebno.

Hvala, to mi mnogo znači.

Ok, that was it.

Very nice conversation.

Positive one. I like it.

I hope you guys also liked it.

All right. Thanks a lot, Ivana.

Ti si divna prijateljica.

Ah, that's great.

Yes, it's correct.

Gramatically, and thank you for that, of course.

And you too.

I ti takođe.

I Yes, bravo.

Perfect. I am kind of happy that I am shoving off my Serbian a

little bit from time to time.

Okay. To je bilo divno.

Hvala puno i vidimo se.

Vidimo se. Hvala tebi.

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