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Hello, I am wondering whether "simbiotski" and "simbiotički" are both correct adjectival derivatives from "simbioza" in BCMS and whether there are any differences between the individual standard languages. I have found many examples of both, but only "simbiotski" is covered by Hrvatski jezični...

Context: "...hoće da pripreža i uhvati štetočinu..." Cannot find in Morton Benson or Matica Srpska dictionaries (nor Wiktionary, HJP, other online sources).

Hello, Can someone tell me the English translation of BCSM "blok" and Macedonian "блок", referring to a group of sheets of special paper for drawing and painting (e.g. with watercolors and pastels), commonly used by schoolchildren in art classes, e.g. of the kind in this ad. Thank you in advance

Context: "Sve je vlažno i odvuglo." Something to do with moisture but not sure exactly what.

Здраво, Са каквом смислом се употребљава инструментал у реченици "Којом гором идеш ти..." (из песме Драгане Мирковић)? Претпостављам да је исти смисао као "из које горе" али зашто имамо ту инструментал? Нисам видео досад друге примере за такву употребу.

Why is the sequence ⟨иј⟩ pronounced /i/ in змија and /j/ in тензија? Why aren’t they spelled *змиа and *тензја instead?

I saw this in Wiktionary: Jugòslāvija or Jugoslȃvija This struck me as strange. There are people who stress the second syllable? Is this a regionalism? I've only heard it stressed on the third syllable.

Does someone know what means "pod premazan olatom"? What is "olat"?

Hi everyone, my name is Kuri. I am in research of my family roots and discovered several obscure postcards in the estate of my late father. All of them are written in (probably) Serbo-Croat (most of them are from Zagreb), well, at least in latin letters. :) A handful of sentences are easy to...

How can I translate this Serbian word into English literally. It refers to a black man and it is a derogatory term I know, but even I, a native speaker, do not know the etymology of the word. čamuga? Does it come from čam? What does that mean?

Здраво, налазио сам на сајту Wiktionary да глагол пењати има алтернативни инфинитив "пети". Моје питање је да ли се тај инфинитив користи у живом језику или не и да ли се пењати чешће користи?

Hello, Can someone tell me the English term for "telefonski priključak" in contexts such as the following: "uz telefonski priključak odaberite tarifni model ili neki od paketa integriranih usluga iz naše ponude" "prva mogućnost je da vlasnik telefonskog priključka da ovjerenu izjavu kojom...

In Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian/Montenegrin, what does the term ekonomski deo generally refer to in the context of a house/building? I've heard that the ekonomski deo generally comprises the bathroom(s) and storage room(s), but I don't know if it's limited to that. (Also, if this terminology...

In a Croatian doctor's report, one reads: How is "sliv" being used here? Some sources suggest that it means "basin", but I am not sure that is its primary meaning (it is also equated with Slovenian sotočje "confluence", for example). Plus which, I haven't yet found any support for "left...

Hello, Is there a standard imperfective verb in BCSM meaning to "fall asleep", corresponding to perfective "zaspati" or "usnuti", which seem to be grammatically required after conjunctions such as "dok"? I have come across some examples online with "zaspivati" and "usnivati", from informal...

Hello, Could someone tell me what the English equivalent of BCS "sitni inventar" would be (in opposition to "osnovno sredstvo"), as in the following examples: Sitni inventar se smatra imovinom koja ima vijek trajanja kraći od godine dana i jedinični trošak nabave manji od 3.500,00 kn (bez...

Is there a rule governing where the stress falls in -anje gerunds? Sometimes it's the penultimate syllable (like osiguránje) and other times the antepenultimate (like predávanje).

Hello, As far as I gather, in BCS the locative interrogative forms "kuda" and "gde/gdje" differ in that the former is directional/allative, meaning "to which place" (archaic English "whither"), whereas the latter is stative, meaning "at which place". However, it seems to me that the...

I'm looking for help translating this tombstone - Unknown Unknown - Find A Grave Memorial. I've tried google translate but it's hard for me to determine one word from another as the writing is so close together. Can anyone help?

Hello, Could someone tell me the meaning of "ubrk" in BCS? I have been unable to find it in any dictionary, except orthographic dictionaries which specify that the correct spelling is "ubrk" and not "u brk". Below are some examples: "Imao sam teške razgovore između ostalog i sa Milanom...

Hello, Could someone suggest an English translation for the term "sistem sala" in BCS (or Macedonian, assuming it has the same meaning in both languages), for example in the following sentences found online: "Sistem sala Centra informacionog sistema, koja je srce informacionog sistema...

Nakon što su se tek skrasili, ne mogu izbjeći progone, naročito iz Slovenije iz koje su protjerani 1496, iz Dubrovnika, Banske Hrvatske, Židovi su raspršeni po raznim državama. Is it OK to translate Banska Hrvatska as "Kingdom of Croatia"? thank you

I'm learning about the Milankovitch parameters that influence our climate over thousands of years. My question is where is the accent in Milankovitch, is it on the o or on another syllable

Zdravo svima. Zna li neko koji se termin koristi na sprkom za usvajanje tuđih mladunaca (alloparenting na engleskom, allogenitorialità na italijanskom)? Na Vikipediji pronalazim termin aloroditeljstvo, ali nisam sigurna da je to pravilno, budući da su spojene reči različitog porekla (allo je iz...

Ćao svima! Našao sam ovu reč u monografiji R. Mladenovića "Говор северношарпланинске жупе Сиринић". Kontekst: "А та́ко не́што – сəм пле́ла, не́што сəм ши́ла. Штого́дəр. Нема́ло не́што ле́по да се ку́пи, него штого́дəр. Порке́т! Ши́ комбинезо́не, ши штого́дəр." Hvala svima koji odgovore.

"Tada neko od turskih mladića vikne: — 'Oćeš, kurvo, Tripolis? Evo ti, na! I vičući odmeraju za njim »od šake do lakta« i čine druge nepristojne pokrete." od šake do lakta: kakva kretnja je to?

Could you please explain me the meaning of verb "strmeknuti se"? Došao je do Donave, gde bi se strmeknuo u vodu.

I wonder if the Serbian word veštac is an old one for čarobnjak? Which word is used more often?

A legal document from Serbia speaks of "закључење брака", which I think would be written "zaključenje braka" in the Latin alphabet (and in Bosnian and Croatian). Does this mean the actual termination (nullification or similar) of a marriage? Or, is this a case where "conclude" is being used in...

Is it true that Croatian is "more Slavic" than Serbian lexically, with more Slavic words instead of Western borrowings? And what about Bosnian, I haven't known of it as much?

Bio sam u bgd u jednom hostelu kad jos nisam znao govoriti na nasem, i sad kad se podsjecam na to bas me zanime kak bi trebao nazvat i pozdravit curicu od 4 5 god vlasnice onoga hostela kad sam tek stigao kod njih. ,,Mala'' kazem bi bilo neuljudno a isto nebi htio zvuci kao da sam joj stranac il...

Evo ljudi mozete mi malo objasniti sta ovo znaci:,,Vlada Republike Hrvatske odlucno se protivi svim oblicima govora mrznje[...] od strane pojedinaca i skupina koje se ne mire s postojanjem moderne...[...] hrvatske drzave, te u tom smislu djeluju drzavne institucije''. Hvala unaprijed

.."svaka Boba djeluje samostalno i neovisno". • Each Bean acts independently and independently. nema smisla ponavljati istu riječ. Kako prevesti bolje? ovo je rečenica i jednog statuta gdje je opisana organizacija jednog društvenog pokreta "Mreža ZaBrata" Struktura organizacije je : Vijeće...

Koji je zavrsaven oblik rijeci ,,povjeravati''.

Cao ljudi, samo da vas pitam ono kako bi govorio za, (ili da li postoji neki takav izraz) "my/your English is good/bad". Ili bi uvijek pricali samo "dobro/lose govorim engleski"? Hvala puno.

Što/Šta znači ovaj stih: "drumovi odoše a ja osta" The roads have gone but I sayed? That doesn't make much sense to me.

As a native Bulgarian speaker both sound almost identical to me. What is their level of mutual intelligibility?

Hello to all. The mother of George Castrioti - Skanderbeg is referred as "Voisava" in his early biographies, daughter of a "Triballian" leader (believed to be George Brancovic). Does anybody know what "Voisava" (or Vojsava) mean? Thanks in advance.

Da li postoje bilo koji slučajevi gde se lokativ razlikuje od dativa?

Da li je na srpskom pravilno reći dvadeset dva časa ili dvadeset dva časova?

Hello! I would like to ask you the following: Is there a word "pozor" in the Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian languages and if there is, what is its meaning? What does "pozorište""mean? Is there a linguistic relation betweet "pozor"and "pozorište""? Thank you.

My question is regarding the expression: "čućemo se već". I get the meaning, ie "we will speak"..but not sure of the connotation. Is it hopeful, slightly hostile or?! Thanks in advance!

Molim kako ovu zadnju rečenicu posložiti a da bude jasno.? We are moving into a different physical form. The Earth is and so are we." ----------------------------- Zemlja je pa smo tako i mi..? Da li vam je tako jasno? mene je malo zbunilo "Zemlja je...) Što je? bolje bi mi zvučalo.."...

Kako to reči na Hrvatskom? ne sviđa mi se "krešendovanje" "is simply crescendoing and growing louder and louder until everybody simply hears."

"It's the old frequency you that obeyed." Kako ispravno prevesti? Ja sam shvatila " To je vaša stara frekvencija da poslušate" There is one more similar sentence and position of this "you " confuses me. here is whole more text What is the slave self? It's the old frequency you that obeyed...

The most widespread pattern of forming secondary imperfectives in Slavic is exemplified by the following Old Church Slavonic type: pasti, padǫ (perfective) → padati, padajǫ (imperfective) obrězati, obrěžǫ → obrězati, obrězajǫ sъzьdati, sъziždǫ → sъzidati, sъzidajǫ narešti, narekǫ → naricati...

На руском се каже “у меня нет денег” (I’ve got no money) и не “у меня нет деньги”. На исти начин се каже (увек?) “немам новца” и не “немам новац” на српском. Немам времена, немам хлеба, немају млека у продавници, итд. А шта је са множином? Чини ми се да се може рећи “немају колача” а такође...

In English, people who go to bed early and get up early sometimes quote the rhyme (attributed to Benjamin Franklin) 'Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise'. Those who go to bed late don't quote that saying, for obvious reasons. In some languages they talk about...

I know it's a bit of an unorthodox request, but I wonder if anyone can help me translate the Serbian text below written on the rear of a photo of a steam roller? I think it refers to a foundry in Vojvodina, but I cannot make out the third and fourth words. Many thanks