Kako opisati ljude na srpskom?

useful and our guide here as always nikola ciao kako stem dobro smo on

behalf of people i won't say

I hope everybody's good.

So in this episode, we are going to look at the adjectives.

And I need to say this, this is one of the best grammar points

in Serbian for me, because it's kind of easy, right?

It's more regular.

Talking about adjectives, comparatives, superlatives.

So I'm excited to go over them with you, Nicola.

Okay. So let's start with the beginner level.

So we are going to do one beginner level, one intermediate level, and one

advanced level of description.

So beginner level adjectives.

So mostly we describe people, right?

Yes. Their appearance, I mean.

Yes. So what comes to your mind when it comes to physical descriptions?

um so mostly um like you can describe people uh using adjectives related

to height um the color of hair like hair eyes um that's

like the most frequent thing yes you can also describe the age yes that's

what i was gonna i remember in our first episode when we introduced ourselves

in my description i didn't add physical like appearance that much but you did

i remember and it's maybe yeah it usually is used when describing some someone

else yes it's more common so we have of course three

genders um when it comes to height, visok, right?

So, visok, visoka, but for

sredni rod, we don't have...

Visoko. Ah, it's ok.

Yeah, that's true. Visok, visoka, visoko.

And for plural, of course, we have visokis,

how can I say this?

Wait a minute.

Srbini? Is plural Srbini?

Srbini? Serbs? Uh-huh.

Serbi, Serbi. Serbi.

Visoki, Serbi.

Visoki su Serbi or Serbi su Visoki.

That's 100% true.

Okay. And the opposite is Nizak.

Uh-huh. Nizak. This one changes a little bit when it comes to the feminine

version. Yes. We have disappearing A.

Second to last A in a word that usually disappears or movable A.

And it also causes other changes.

Z will change to S.

because it's easier to pronounce than when it comes in contact with k for

example niska nisko I

never used nisko I think neuter is not as common exactly and

when we come to the age or like how they look in

terms of age so mlad mladda mladdo right young and the old one star

star and staro yes star is i think one of the most common adjectives

because star grad star strada we always use star right yes it's quite frequent

when it comes to colors maybe most of our listeners already know uh dark

um or light is something else in serbian and the eyes and the hair

might have completely different color names only for like specific to them so let's

dive into it so how would you say brown hair you can say smedja

kosa but you can also say brown kosa brown doesn't change through

genders it will always be brown.

Yeah, a borrowed word.

Yes, definitely. But smegia?

Smegia, smegia, neuter.

Neuter is smegia this time.

But smegia is used for only hair color or can we use

it for the eye color?

Neutra is used for eyes, yes.

Not only here.

Then eyes are ochi.

It will be Smeji oci?

Smeji. So that's irregular.

So one I is oko, is neuter singular.

But in plural, the word is feminine.

Even though it ends on E, it's feminine.

I love Serbian.

Yeah, you have groups of words that are feminine, but end on consonant.

And in E, E in plural.

So oci is that.

And ushi also is one of them, right?

Uši, yep. Uko uši or uvo uši.

So then the adjective that describes that word will be feminine plural.

Smeđe. Smeđe oči.

Okay.

Cool. Let's go to eyes.

As we said, oko oči becomes irregular.

So, plave oči.

Plave oči, feminine plural.

But plavo oko, right?

Plavo oko, one eye, yes.

And I don't know if you mentioned this before, but blonde, we say

blonde hair. Yeah.

We say plava.

Yeah, plava. Plava kosa.

We say blue hair.

I really don't know why.

So only for hair we say plava kosa.

It means blonde hair.

If the hair is really blue, it's still plava kosa.

so you wouldn't know what you're saying unless you see the actual hair but

i when i learned that it was like why and no one knows the

etymology i mean around me maybe i should dig into it there must be

some explanation there probably so basically everything is good here like only

is the issue but when it comes to adjectives nizak and niska is the

only exception that we can think of, right.

Let's try to describe some famous Serbians.

Okay. So, you finish the sentence, I will start, all right.

Novak Djokovic is...

Visok. Yes.

Milica Pavlovich is...

Nikola Tesla was...

Star. no yokich ima love watch does he really have blue eyes

yes okay i'm a huge fan of him okay yeah he does i know

when it comes to comparatives and superlatives that's just a little bit of um

have a revision of it so mostly it's again depends if the subject

is feminine or masculine we need to say it differently in comparative form so

visok becomes

visha yeah in feminine vishi in masculine visoka visha visok

vishi yes

would you say there is also mostly like some regular form here yeah two

endings for comparative that are frequent Yi and Yi Yi you

add to short adjectives let's say žut yellow and you add Yi to that

and it will become žuči because Yi will cause changes with the letter it

comes in contact with so žut, T and Yi will make Č there's a

list of those endings for jotovanie that you can learn and Yi endings are

added to longer adjectives I don't know, pametan, pametniji martyr there are three regular

not regular, three verbs that only have ending she, lep, lak and mek will

be lep, she, lak, she and mek, she in comparative and I think dobro

is also one of the most common adjectives irregular, bolje three or four so

dobar

dobar bolji

zaogori like evil and worse but we use gori to say like worse like

more bad yeah wash gori what are the other two i forgot we don't

use them that much maybe but yeah good and bad these are also irregular

in english so we can't blame serbian on this so let's look at the

adjectives that we mentioned so we saw visha nizak niji or nija

in feminine mlad mlaji there has

to be something at the end obviously but star study study

even though it's not long right yes there will be exceptions but it makes

sense because if it wasn't then it would be plural uh adjective right an

adjective with a plural now starry ludi right so that's why i need to

say starry you to make it yeah star and no are two adjectives that

follow that rule starry novi novi as well okay so smedja i mean more

brown would you say it's not very common but smedja yes it doesn't have

comparatives smedja is always major.

Yeah. It's a vicious major.

No need. Exactly.

Yeah. Plave also?

Also, I think.

Colors do not.

Colors. Some colors.

Maybe but not all of them.

I see. Okay.

So let's compare one feminine, one masculine noun.

Let's make a sentence here.

I will say, My sister is taller

than my brother.

Yes. For now.

Okay.

And can you do the right vice versa?

So we are seeing the same thing using different adjectives.

There is a part of the J here of course genitive.

If you want to say Dan, use to compare, use od plus genitive or

nego with nominative.

Ah, that's true.

Nego is the safe one.

So I would say moja sestra je viša nego moj brat.

Yes. Yes, I like nego more now.

This is more common, probably.

And superlative is beautiful.

So you just put nai to the comparative form.

Viša, najviša. Niji, najvi.

Niji, najniži, right?

Yes. you just have to be careful if comparatively already starts with you you

have to write w for example yachi is stronger nai yachi the strongest would

have double j's double yes yes good good to know but only with j

so there's yes

I like superlative in this one.

So this was for beginner level let's switch to intermediate thread.

Here what I put is a little bit of character

like lab I think is used for appearance also for character right yes

lab can be uh pretty but it can also mean like it can be

good well nice depends on the context yes lep lepa lepo

right and friendly i think everybody needs to use it in serbia to describe

people simpatican yeah it can be friendly uh there is i don't know how

to maybe even closer translation to english can be um no

there is not a direct translation to english which one you mean sympathetic yeah

yeah someone that uh is interesting to you it's not like sympathetic

like it's not no i won't say yeah no you also have what was

the other one like friendly or kind.

Любозн. Любозн. That's kind.

Yes.

Любозн. There is a word дружелюбив.

Yes, which is hard.

That means someone who likes to hang out.

Because дружить is to hang out.

To hang out, to socialize.

And also

put is interesting.

why i put it here put for me was always road or trip but

we have tamna put here which is like dark road i would say but

it becomes dark skinned yes so the difference is in the accent if it's

a longer accent it means road put and put is um skin but um

no one says it like that skin is koja yes koja is used only

this word i'm not put the no puta is like dark skin yes i

thought everybody should know this because we know put stretch and put like root

yeah so just to clarify what it means so nikola let's do

something fun uh i want you to pick someone in your mind someone that

is famous so that i can guess and try to an athlete by the

way i'm narrowing it down because it's going to take ages um i want

you to pick a young athlete from serbia and try to describe the appearance

and the character a little bit of that person okay so in

serbian um and the polaco yeah i'll start like to make it to avoid

like using genders i guess yeah i will get the gender by the way

that's a beautiful beauty of this person

okay

I'm looking at a picture.

Crne oči. Crne I would say.

What is she?

Crne oči, at least.

I ova osoba je sportistkinja.

So, žena sportistkinja.

Moram da pitam, šta igra ona?

Oh, yeah. Okay.

And jump. Hmm.

So, sport.

So these are very common, of course, physical descriptions like Tom Lukosi used to

dark hair, strong black eyes.

She is wide?

Wide? Wide, sorry.

I think it is.

Ivan, Vuleta? Yes, Spanovic, but now Vuleta.

Now Vuleta? Okay.

Super. Okay. It was hard, but I cheated a little bit to

ask you what she does.

Otherwise, I wouldn't know.

Now, I want you to pick someone from cinema industry, from the film industry.

Okay. Can be a director, a Serbian director, or an actor, actress.

Let's see who you will get.

So, ovaj čovek je

stariji.

Stariji od starijnego?

Zroz stariji. Stariji, okay.

I don't know which colors are the eyes.

You never know the eye color, I know.

No, I think they're light.

They are light.

Lightly. I'm not sure.

And this person.

Okay. And this person

has...

...he made a village.

Aha!

Thank you very much.

He made a village which is in my to-go list.

That's why I know it immediately.

Yeah. He is Emir Kusturica.

Emir Kusturica. Emir Kusturica is made a village called Drvengrad.

Drvengrad, yes. Some friends of mine went, but I couldn't yet.

But they say it's really nice.

I did it.

I didn't. It's my list to go list.

Tara and Drvengrad, two things.

Yeah.

Okay, it's your turn.

I prepared my answer beforehand.

So I have a little bit of a different description.

Okay.

Ova also was nicer than you, but I had prepared on ye.

So I already gave you the gender.

Dovra, dovra. On ye visok.

I tejak. O posto.

Dua deset. Ettevet kilogram.

Ah, okay.

Okay.

While his work ethic Italian is a very difficult word

that he is one of the best kosherkars of the day.

That must be Nikola Jokic.

Yes, of course.

I'm so happy that I had to describe him.

You see how excited I am when I talk about him.

Okay. so fan Jokic yes I am because of all these

things that I said he's a typical strong Caribbean basketball player his face is

usually serious like many Serbians but actually he has a gentle expression and he's

opusten like a very relaxed person

so ima svetlu put I said it's a bit different but it would make

sense as well right Yeah, Svetloput, yeah.

Light skin. Light skin, yeah.

Super. And a nice word that I learned while, scrumnosti.

Scrumnost, modesty.

So adjective would be scrumni?

Da, scrumni, scroman, scrumna.

Okay, okay, super.

And we said he loves his family and also horses he's famous for his

love for horses exactly okay so that's it for today we will put everything

on um instagram and on our description on youtube and on other podcast providers

okay ciao