What do the Serbian words mean?
Answer
Most are pretty easy. You will see them translated on the airport map. Any you don't recognize can be found in Google translate.
Make yourself an alphabetical list of those you see in Serbian or want to translate from English. After you have learned them you will find you can recognize the Serbian at a glance without bothering to waste time reading both the Serbian and the English.
Serbian can be written in the same alphabet as English or in the Cyrillic alphabet also used by the Russians and Bulgarians.
I have listed them alphabetically in both Serbian and English first.
Serbian - English
ambulanta - infirmary (like ambulance, walking wounded)
apoteka - pharmacy
banka - bank
i - and
informacije - information
od - from
od i do - from and to
polisija - police
prodavnica - shop (produce, products)
putovanji - travel
restoran - restaurant
stepenice - steps / stairs
telefon - phone
to - do
toalet - toilet
trafika - newsstand (UK news agent)
usluge - services
English - Serbian
and - i
bank - banka
from - od (like out of)
from and to - od i do
infirmary - ambulanta (like ambulance)
information - informacije
news agent (UK) / newsstand (US) - trafika
pharmacy - apoteka (like apothecary)
phone - telefon
police - polisija
restaurant -restoran
services - usluge
shop (produce / products) - prodavnica
stairs / steps - stepnice
to - do (t and d are similar sounding consonants)
toilet - toalet
travel - putovanji (sounds and looks like put on a van)
Serbian and Romanian, like Spanish and Italian, have so many words which have similar roots and similar spelling to English that they are easy to recognize and remember.
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Teacher of English and foreign languages. I can teach workshops and teach adults and children worldwide by Skype. See my other posts on languages and destinations in Europe, the USA and Americas, Asia and Australasia. Please bookmark and share links to your favourite posts.
Answer
Most are pretty easy. You will see them translated on the airport map. Any you don't recognize can be found in Google translate.
Make yourself an alphabetical list of those you see in Serbian or want to translate from English. After you have learned them you will find you can recognize the Serbian at a glance without bothering to waste time reading both the Serbian and the English.
Serbian can be written in the same alphabet as English or in the Cyrillic alphabet also used by the Russians and Bulgarians.
I have listed them alphabetically in both Serbian and English first.
Serbian - English
ambulanta - infirmary (like ambulance, walking wounded)
apoteka - pharmacy
banka - bank
i - and
informacije - information
od - from
od i do - from and to
polisija - police
prodavnica - shop (produce, products)
putovanji - travel
restoran - restaurant
stepenice - steps / stairs
telefon - phone
to - do
toalet - toilet
trafika - newsstand (UK news agent)
usluge - services
English - Serbian
and - i
bank - banka
from - od (like out of)
from and to - od i do
infirmary - ambulanta (like ambulance)
information - informacije
news agent (UK) / newsstand (US) - trafika
pharmacy - apoteka (like apothecary)
phone - telefon
police - polisija
restaurant -restoran
services - usluge
shop (produce / products) - prodavnica
stairs / steps - stepnice
to - do (t and d are similar sounding consonants)
toilet - toalet
travel - putovanji (sounds and looks like put on a van)
Serbian and Romanian, like Spanish and Italian, have so many words which have similar roots and similar spelling to English that they are easy to recognize and remember.
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Teacher of English and foreign languages. I can teach workshops and teach adults and children worldwide by Skype. See my other posts on languages and destinations in Europe, the USA and Americas, Asia and Australasia. Please bookmark and share links to your favourite posts.
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