Serbian Grammar

The Serbian grammar allows you to manipulate the vocabulary to obtain multiple forms of a word. The grammatical rules below are the most important in Serbian and help connect words or shape the structure. We start with the prepositions:

And: и  [i]	Under: испод  [ispod]
Before: пре  [prye]	After: после  [poslye]
Inside: унутар  [oonootar]	Outside: ван  [van]
With: са  [sa]	But: али  [ali]
For: за  [za]	From: од  [od]
To: у  [oo]	In: у  [oo]

Questions and Adverbs

To ask questions, use the following:

What?: шта?  [shta?]	Who?: ко?  [ko?]
How?: како?  [kako?]	Why?: зашто?  [zashto?]
Where?: где?  [gudye?]

Some of the most important time adverbs:

Never: никада  [nikada]	Rarely: ретко  [ryetko]
Sometimes: понекад  [ponyekad]	Usually: обично  [obichno]
Always: увек  [oovyek]	Very: веома  [vyeoma]

Most commonly used pronouns in Serbian:

I: ја  [јa]	You: ти/ви  [ti/vi]
He: он  [on]	She: она  [ona]
We: ми  [mi]	They: они  [oni]

To express the possession of something [possessive form]:

My: мој  [moј]	Your: тво  [tvo]
His: његов   [њyeguov ]	Her: њен   [њyen ]
Our: наш  [nash]	Their: њихов  [њikhov]

Grammar in a sentence

Some random verbs to show how it's being used:

I speak English: говорим енглески  [guovorim yengulyeski]

You speak French: говорите француски  [guovoritye frantzooski]

He speaks German: говори немачки  [guovori nyemachki]

She speaks Italian: говори италијански  [guovori italiјanski]

I visited France: посетио сам француску  [posyetio sam frantzooskoo]

I will drink milk: ја ћу пити млеко  [јa ćoo piti mlyeko]

Some extra grammatical structures:

I understand you: разумем те  [razoomyem tye]

I don't understand you: не разумем те  [nye razoomyem tye]

I don't speak French: не говорим француски  [nye guovorim frantzooski]

This is my house: ово је моја кућа  [ovo јye moјa kooća]

That restaurant is far: тај ресторан је далеко  [taј ryestoran јye dalyeko]

No problem: нема проблема  [nyema problyema]

The above Serbian grammar can provide tools to use in coordination with the Serbian vocabulary to obtain some popular Serbian phrases.