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Essential Serbian verbs
To be, to have, can, to go — plus the imperatives you hear shouted across a street: daj, reci, stani. Verbs hold a sentence together: learn a dozen and you start building phrases instead of memorising them whole.
30 words
- бити · bitito be
- имати · imatito have
- хтети · htetito want
- моћи · moćito be able to
- радити · raditito do; to work
- ићи · ićito go
- дај · dajgive
- реци · recitell, say
- дођи · dođicome, come here
- иди · idigo
- стани · stanistop
- сачекај · sačekajwait
- помози · pomozihelp
- пожури · požurihurry up
- скрени · skreniturn
- немој · nemojdon't (prohibition)
- пријавити се · prijaviti seto apply
- очекивати · očekivatito expect
- писати · pisatito write (ongoing)
- написати · napisatito write (completed)
- слати · slatito send (regularly)
- послати · poslatito send (once)
- почети · početito start
- завршити · završitito finish
- планирати · planiratito plan
- обећати · obećatito promise
- јавити се · javiti seto get in touch
- отказати · otkazatito cancel
- одбити · odbitito refuse, to reject
- напредовати · napredovatito progress, to move up
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