Calling a Serbian Restaurant

Thank you Good, thank you Thank you guys, this is our third episode And

this time we wanted you to get familiar with talking on the phone Which

is sometimes pain in the neck, right Nikola?

Yep And there are some cultural parts that you need to pay attention on

the phone. So we are going to be covering how to talk properly on

the phone with a restaurant.

Again, we prepared something, some text in three different levels.

So we will be reading them.

And this time we are going to be having roles.

So we will be speaking together, Nicola.

Exactly.

Which role do you want to take?

Customer or restaurant worker?

In real life, I will be the customer.

So that's why I would like to continue with the customer.

Okay. Yeah, let's start with the beginner level.

And after reading this, we will just explain the hard parts maybe that I

have questions about.

And then you can find the subtitles in Serbian and in English on our

YouTube channels. Right.

Let's start.

Yes. Hello, is this restaurant at the entrance?

Yes, okay, at the entrance.

Hello, yes, I'm sorry.

I want to reserve 100 for the evening.

Of course. How many people?

For 2 people, please.

How many hours?

8 hours.

Okay, 100 for 2 people, 8 hours is reserved.

Thank you. That's a simple one, but still.

Yep.

The thing that I had difficulty with, of course, I was like, shall I

write?

That's genitive. Yes.

Do you want to discuss about it?

Yeah, just to explain koliko and how the nouns are put.

and here's that also effect i know but yeah so koliko is like a

word that is like quantity describes quantity so any word like that nogoma la

puno and so on after all of those words we should use genitive and

uh also by scale genitive plural one person is also also but that's nominative

singular feminine but genitive plural looks exactly the same luckily good and

the answer of course now um with the number that's why it's it became

osobe also be also be here because of the word dve number two

which also be here is a special form in some texts where you can

find it that it says it's genitive it's not actually genitive it looks like

genitive but it's paucal

for family okay so if it was three osobe it would be again osobe

dve three cetri osobe pet osoba after

five yeah genitive yeah that's the beauty of serbian people.

And again, koliko is used.

This time it's sati, right?

That's also plural, you would say?

It is, yeah.

Also genitive. Sati has a special form.

It behaves as those words that end on consonant, but are feminine.

And this is plural.

So plural form of that, it tends on e.

So sati, meseci, behavior like that.

So koliko sati, koliko meseci.

Okay. Super. Thank you.

So beginner was like this.

And let's have a look at the intermediate now.

Yes. Dobar dan.

Da li bih mogla da naručim hranu zaponeti?

Of course, what would you like to do?

I would like one portion of the bread with the roccius from salad, so

add soup.

Okay, do you want something else?

No, that's all for now.

How will it take?

The food will be ready for about 20 minutes.

Great! Thank you!

See you soon!

Okay. Here, someone is ordering to take away or

to have a delivery at home, right?

To take away, za poneti.

And oddly enough, we consider in standard Serbian not to be a good form

to use, even though everybody uses it.

So, in Serbian, we should not use prepositions with verbs.

Poneti is a verb.

that's true so you can say something like but it's

so so frequent and you see it everywhere so exactly in front of the

cafes like cafe za poneti i see all the time exactly so that's why

this person is like me using whatever they see on that and here um

just the question of my like Dali bih mogla danaricim.

It's okay. I would like to order, but it's in the question form.

Can I order?

Yes, yes. So you can use this big form, like conditional, which you soften

the sentence a bit, make it less demanding and more polite.

Yeah. In real life, I actually, when I call, I say mogla bih.

Like, I do not put dali or yeli, that question form.

because when I translate it doesn't you know come easy on my mind like

it's any chance would you like would I like to you know yeah but

it's common yeah it is common and again maybe even more frequent it's just

people would just say I will and then say what they would like to

take if it was I would say I would say I would say

or when you enter like a bakery let's say you want to buy bread

people would just say which is again incorrect but so so frequent in spoken

serbian so don't get confused if you hear it yeah yeah and even more

polite i think will be here in a port seal like yes that's so

polite that you probably won't hear it yes i don't use it either it

is standard i would just simply say

mozhe does all the work that's fine and do that is super like here

obviously there is one and soup possible in the, or present in the restaurant.

Yes, so dodete is imperative in second person plural.

Yeah, and how long will it take?

Koliko će to trajati?

I think it's also not that common to say this way, but it's correct,

right? I would say koliko dugo biće, something like this.

Koliko dugo će biti?

Če biti. Try this to last.

Yes. Use it for something that takes time.

Like movies.

Yeah. So how would you ask if you were?

Koliko długo će...

I would say trajati, actually.

Ah, okay, cool.

Or you could say koliko długo će biti, how long will it be?

Koliko će biti, yeah.

Rano će biti spremna.

Za otprilike. Otprilike?

uh it's like around approximately okay okay good and uh

that's nice so the second person thinking will use yes ah

ending that's also something that i cooked uh listening to people yeah that's that's

dative and one thing that's not here written like dative um sorry the second

person plural when being polite if you write the text v should be capital

letter like a big letter every v so yeah that's true and one

other thing i notice i want to tell you nešto još we would switch

actually we would say još nešto in serbian but this is something else still

Do you want something else?

Yes, do you want something else.

Something else is not that common.

Oh, okay. I'm fixing that.

Good. I'm ready for the advance now.

Okay. Ciao! Zovem to see if you have a free 100 for the evening.

We should have to stay for 4, somewhere around 9 hours.

Ciao! We have 100,9.

Do we want to write you?

Great, yes. Can you stay in a safe place if possible?

Of course, no problem.

We will find you a nice place where it is not good.

Maybe you have some special desires?

Thank you. That's super.

One person from the society is vegetarian.

It would be great to have some options from vegetarian.

I like

Ma so much.

I don't know.

I just find it amazing each time.

You can translate it, can you?

It's just an expression like mostly with negatives,

right?

Sorry? Mostly with negations, like Yeah, something negative,

I guess, or contrary to make a contrast.

And also, one question to you.

Is there any difference for you between ma and pa?

i is like so and ma is i wouldn't say so it's something you

say to make to contrast the other person what other person said or to

negate i see okay here also we have their polack serbian right

yes here one thing that chat waro here is something new to me not

that check three

Četvoro is a type of word we use for a group of mixed people

when you have like boys and girls in a group.

So whatever, however they're mixed, you use četvoro, petoro, šestoro.

Or you can use to count like nouns that are

neuter gender.

also a group of people like cetvo

dece for example children but mostly for a group of mixed thank

you I'm enlightened and

instead of what was the word I'm just going to check

otprilike Okay, we have here negde, right?

Yes, negde, right.

Is there a very similar around?

Yeah, around, yeah.

It means somewhere, of course, but in this context means somewhere around.

I guess English does it similarly.

Yeah, and negde is used much more in my experience, right?

Negde oko. Yeah, it's quite frequent, yeah.

Yeah, okay. Dalite te upisemo.

upishemo here is like write your name down right write you invite you down

right yeah and it's in uh singular form so te is

you in singular instead of uh vas so they're less formal as if they

know each other already yeah that's why i wrote informal in brackets here yes

um okay here also something that i

want um again like the person is saying like a summer quieter please uh

and then the person from the restaurant asks them do you have any other

request and then pa yet no also but here is like pa so yeah

so so or well as well so well one person blah blah blah so

when you're when you're starting a new topic or an explanation you can start

with pa right yeah yeah yeah use this twice though pa yet no also

where is like yeah that's interesting so this first one is well and then

the other one is so so well the first this starts well one person

is vegetarian so it would be nice great yeah and

also is this common next uh part um like do

people really order if they're really hungry obviously they can but have you ever

done this like you order before going to the restaurant by calling prepare me

my pizza i'm coming in 10 minutes not really only if it's like uh

to pick up something like pleskovica or pizza sure but only if it's a

takeaway yeah people usually order

uh pleskovica or pizza and then they come pick it up but not to

sit down i see okay

and then this is also to me very polite jedva cekamada was ugostimo yeah

very polite and very nice but you wouldn't hear it maybe that

often unless you're close to someone you know yeah maybe they know each other

right yeah

jedva cekamo is

jedva cekamo is like can't wait we can't wait Yes, and ugostimo is ugostiti,

I guess, to host you, right?

Host, yes, from word ghost, guest.

So I can use it like ugosti la sam neke pretalje.

Yes, exactly, with acquisiti.

Great, great. All right, thank you so much.

This was really useful.

And I think we need to look at this text again and again as

learners, of course.

No problem. All right, everyone.

Thank you for joining in.

Vedemos. Vedemos. Ciao.