Ep.10: Phrases with No English Equivalent

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sorry i interrupted again no

we we should literally we should really synchronize but

anyway sometimes it happens sometimes it works great sometimes it doesn't

i you know in my mind you greet i greet and then you say

your name i said my name

in your mind you greet and you're saying no it's not wrong it's just

different

also the lagging doesn't help um if we were together that happens yeah like

now exactly

we just start talking over each other and then there's like sometimes we wait

one another there's like long pauses long breaks you know that's what you get

for

guys i'm sorry yes i

think our followers are used to that anyway but what are we talking about

today today is we are doing the last episode of the sixth season yes

season and we are going to talk about some words

and phrases that do not have English equivalent yeah I also included phrases

that are how can I

say like they have an equivalent maybe not 100% in the whole meaning but

like you can translate it in some way, but it's

just like a weird word we use and so on.

So I include a lot of things as well because it's difficult to include

everything.

It's like the whole culture.

Yeah, but it's difficult.

Like, you know, like some words that are completely not like not present

in other languages.

That's really difficult to find.

I feel, you know, non-existent.

yeah yeah and how did we come up with this idea let me tell

you guys okay dear maya steyanovich thanks to you so i bought

this book um to be honest i bought this book as a present to

friend first and i was like i don't have it myself yeah i went

my

again voted for myself because i follow

her i mean we follow her on instagram and she already shares everything there

but here

yes maest and here it's a little bit different because she added more serbian

explanation

um i guess so more examples like in a post i think she doesn't

write that much so

that's why i like i like this book a lot it helps me next

season i'm going to be speaking serbian

should we i think we should we should try we should try exactly not

obviously i'm not expecting you to be proficient or anything but like at least

in the beginning we should yeah we should try

a couple simple topics you know exactly um I love it because she is

first and foremost I think she

is she's like did she study like uh illustrations or like graphic design or

something like that

because because that's like her kind of core interest currently as far as I

know like one of the interests Yeah.

Let me tell you interdisciplinary arts at Seattle university.

Yeah. She got her BA from.

Okay. Well, come back.

I think, I think the audio is going to sound like you are the

one who's lagging, but actually because I'm recording, you know, but actually it's my

internet.

Okay. She lives in Chachak right now, by the way.

cool yes i don't think i've ever been there because it's very close to

khrushchevac i think

um you haven't been to that much so yeah that is true next time

next time you come

so that's why it's very interesting she lives there she has more time to

you know observe what

people say and why they say them you know so that's why it's very

interesting to me yeah she combined both like her passion and also the knowledge

of serbian and like this cultural

understanding so i think this is perfect i mean i think people love it

yes shall we start with hers

or do you want to start with your words no i want to start

with hers i want to start with hers because

i think i'm going to be surprised because i don't know everything and also

i probably forgot a lot of these things yeah so yeah the ones I

picked do not have any existing equivalent in English but

I like to share two of them that kind of have equivalent but I

find them so it's better than

the ones in English so that's why I really loved these two the first

one is Every time, three days a day.

I told this to someone some weeks ago, someone was, I don't know, but

yeah, I was explaining how,

I mean, in a way it's kind of true.

It's like after three days, you're like, now you're like

getting cozy, you know, like that means like three, sorry for not translating.

Every guest

is like enough, like, okay for three days.

Or start smelling after three days, like starts bothering you a little bit like

your daily routine and everything the first day you're like

oh my god this is good the second day oh you're getting to it

okay okay third day now you can go

home now you can go home that's what and the next one that i

really like is it's about someone

that's really nice that's really cute and sort of say mozhesh ne lebatakam namazesh

oh i use that one really for my area we say lab lab lab

lab instead of lab yeah exactly i mean i

of course i know how to say lab and i say lab but sometimes

if i want to be like very creative then

i say lab um so i usually use that for someone who is kind

natured so someone who is so nice i don't know why it's like i

don't know they don't have to explain the reason right away in the book

tell me tell me because for serving culture like in serbian culture bread is

so essential it's like

everybody loves that i mean i think it's universal but anyway in serbian culture

bread is very important and something that you spread namajesh is spread

on bread something that you spread on this very precious thing is also very

important so that's why she says

that's very important like you can just it's like as holy as like

bread itself yeah and tasty and gives you yeah good feelings so i would

say more kind nature like

like a literally really good person that would be amazing to have for you

to have in your life

you know very essential one question though do you say to that person directly

or when you talk

about that person you use it how when you talk about that person okay

i would don't use it a

direct compliment i mean no no i wouldn't say oh like or like no

because um it would it could also

maybe they can be like being kind sometimes it's also like can sound like

oh you're naive

you know oh you're so nice such a nice person it's like you're too

naive can sound like that for some people so we usually talk about the

person without with others but it is it is a

genuinely like the nicest compliment you give someone for at least for me like

because I like

having kind genuine people around me good to know okay some

of them that I picked um have some

religious you know background that's why they don't exist in English because religion is

different the sayings are different so the first one is beatico sweaty ilia have

you heard of that like hit like sweaty sweaty

ilia like uh i'm pretty sure i heard this now i can't remember b

b but are you sure that it was written like that beati maybe i

skipped i have this wait i will find it for you why do

Why do I say bie, too?

Yes, bie kosvetilia.

Ah, like whipping.

Like whipping. Hitting. Hitting, I guess.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Bie, bie. Yeah, exactly.

Why would we use that?

I'm pretty sure it obviously has something to do with the saint, the holiday.

But I have no idea.

He's basically the Zeus of Serbian saints.

He's strong. it's like uh he's so pretty hardcore so when you are cheering

a sports person for example

you go for like i mean they go around here maybe yeah yeah exactly

yeah yeah i'm pretty sure i've

heard this not a lot but i've heard this one but i just made

it popular i guess no i think it is but I wouldn't be able

to understand to explain to you why Sveti Iliya is in that context, you

So I'm pretty sure some other people that are maybe a bit older or

know.

maybe a bit more religious would know to explain this.

But yeah. The second one is a little bit also religious.

Lepkoikona. Oh, yeah.

Beautiful as a religious icon.

Yeah. Icon. Yeah.

It's an icon, right?

here those icons i am so familiar with them wherever i went to look

for a flat to rent

those icons were on the wall yes even like okay you just

lagged a bit actually i lagged right

but um but you what you said is that basically there every time like

you would check everywhere

they would have it hung which is almost everywhere which is a bit strange

because i mean it is strange and it's not I thought we were not

as religious but apparently we are um we do everyone kind of

has it because of the saint because of slava right

slava yeah yeah you kind of need to have it but so you're a

saint um and also my mom now became a

bit more religious and she's just like shoving little like icons in my like

pocket or something

or like wallet or what i'm like mom i i don't need this and

she's like no just take it so yeah we even have a song um

i don't know what the name of the song is but it's like it's

it says uh she's beautiful god uh telling to god how beautiful she is

um and then she's

beautiful like an icon but like a picture right like an icon picture you

also have a saying like god no just

no lip yeah sure i guess so yeah yeah yeah that was interesting

i would never use that oh my god i know yeah yeah but i

would use boggy

boggy yeah to say pretty no so bog boggy yeah like uh god goddess

goddess has a slightly different meaning right i'm a goddess you know like it

can mean like many other like sensuality femininity

you know like stuff like that anyway like gorgeous yeah gorgeous it also power

also power but yeah

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Oh, yeah.

I think you use the next one.

Tell me. Traži hleba prego bogate.

Yeah, traži hleba prego bogate.

These two are so Serbian, bogate and hleba.

That's why I think, I mean, the ranking is very cultural.

like bogatje is something more for like fast festives right for like some important

days

yeah exactly so for example that means looking for bread over

like the bogatje and you said

very greedy yeah so you already have got bread but you're looking for or

you're you already have got pogac but you're still looking for bread like yeah

that's ice cream yeah yeah that's true that's

true so many like i feel like older people would use that i mean

my my parents would maybe use

these things but who knows maybe now we're that generation that uses these expressions

you know

what i mean now we're like in our 30s yeah you start using them

now exactly

and that next one is interesting because that word is

authentic in in serbian mustikla yeah but in in english we don't have like

it's regular name

cigarette holder right does it have it doesn't have a specific name i don't

know what it is but

mustikla yeah a beautiful name for that so next one is ko is pusena

mustikla

um it just sounds very bad uh i'm not quite sure what that means

but it sounds something very negative probably it is it is it is uh

used like she's like so

unmotivated for someone yeah talking about lazy burned out like because that's what i

say burned is pushing that like smoked out burned out like she's yeah that's

wanted to

a good one okay next one is about java it's not good at java

spala again i've heard this one i don't remember

what it is but if someone knows where the devil sleeps yes java

is devil's power

sleep so that means that person knows interesting information like has

knowledge about something very well it's not negative though even though it's not i

would i would think like the person

that knows every everything about everyone you know what i mean if you really

information about something you just call that person according to her explanation okay okay need some

so very resourceful person exactly yeah cool even knows where the devil sleeps

i might have some people who know where the devil sleeps

maybe you are one of them maybe i am to someone else oh my

god yeah

next one's picture is very nice i didn't

write the page number but it's so funny you know

okay it means someone like to get serious like a piglet when it

pees basically but i guess i'm guessing it can apply to almost anyone because

when you're peeing you're like you know like or like when the dog is

peeing or like when the pig

i was thinking of my cat when i read this she's so serious like

yeah and i think it's true for

all animals when they're peeing they're very yeah you know because they couldn't be

attacked i guess so they have to be very that's true focused that's why

i think they have a reason but we use this

for people you know who do not smile in the photos for example

yeah so why are you like it's basically like you're too serious like lighten

up lighten up yeah so was billion it means serious uh

osbil no means serious yeah so

well osbiliti doesn't mean anything it feels like past tense then

was videos yeah

that was good

good catch thank you next one is also funny nece

grom u koprive

oh yeah

so grom is both the thunder

and lightning in serbian I guess

because it gives both the

you know the lightning and it makes the thunder yeah actually munya

would be i think

the lightning and then the thunder would be grom like it actually

like it's not just like what you

see yeah i see what you mean but like it has it's hitting right

like it has to yeah yeah

so coprive is needles needles is that how you say needle needle i thought

needle yeah so these um means like plant which has

sharp edges we drink that for tea as well

because it's full of is it iron that it's full of iron or something

iron calcium as well yeah i think

so that has two different explanation in her explanations in her book one is

like bad things

won't happen to bad people because needles are sharp and you know they hurt

you and

uh lightning as well or thunder also scares you yeah yeah second one but

like you wouldn't harm your own kind both of them are you know scary

or yeah i can see that yeah yeah exactly

uh yeah so basically yeah it's good actually i now learned something new but

i've heard this

when i was younger a lot but i just haven't used it um but

it just from her grandparents you learned

it actually from a song i think even a song yeah there is a

song with that so i think a good lesson here is just like like

listen to serbian songs like they use a lot of these phrases do you

the song was it using the first explanation like that people won't i don't

remember

remember the context no

i just remember when i was younger we were always so scared of nettles

because it was like oh my god they're gonna like burn you

and yeah especially when you're on the mountain yeah so and then and then

someone mentioned that

song and then uh i just remembered it but i don't remember the context

no it's basically saying that

yeah something is not gonna happen like there's no way it's gonna happen to

that person cool this one is also a bit religious but i think it's

used a lot because it's easy to say i'ma pop i haven't

heard of this one maybe i haven't but i forgot like pop saint over

saint so there's always a higher level of uh you know saints in the church

and also in real life right you are a manager but you have a

director your director has a ceo ceo has someone yeah and i'm

guessing to probably to just humble someone to be like you are not the

most important person right

like there's always like something beyond you maybe maybe something like that yeah to

people of this you know fact that you are you're not the top of remind

everything exactly you're not the hero of every every story you know yeah next

one i knew all the words but i didn't know what it

meant of course like we talked about this when we had our wedding episode

we talked about kum but we didn't say kum niye dugme i think

we mentioned it i we had it in the Maybe I forgot to say

it, but it was in the script.

Ah, I see.

Okay.

So, Kum is the godfather.

and which is very important in serbian culture right but i think it was

in this case kum would

mostly be like um best man i think in the

explanation she says kum is someone you would

always listen to you wouldn't cross you know you would yeah and some people