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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...

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, does the Croatian surname Pjaca (e.g. footballer Marko Pjaca) come from Italian Piazza 'square'? They have a similar pronunciation.

Hello, An excerpt from a doctor's (neurologist) report: It seems as though "dg." stands for "dijagnoza" and "MCI" stands for "mild cognitive impairment". But what about "org." and "th"? (I thought that "th" might be short for "therapy", i.e. medical treatment, but the Croatian word for this...

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...

Kao je u naslovu: kakva je razlika između, na primjer, "pojedem" i "pojest ću"? Hvala i unaprijed ako mi može netko pomoći.

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

Dobar Dan. Yesterday, I read a book 'Jedan dan u životu'. but, the first sentence makes me confusion. when I studied Croatian grammar, 'on je bio' was right answer. but, in novel, 'Stephen Spaulding bio je vrlo sretan čovjek, ato je neto ato ne možete reći za većinu ljudi.' Why not 'je bio'?

Hello! I am currently reading the book "Ross Poldark" by Winston Graham in Croatian, and came across to this: "Pogledao je u smjele, tamne oči žene koja <-blah blah->". The English version I have says "He stared into the bold dark eyes of a woman who <-blah blah->". "Smjele" seems hence to have...

Smeće jedno podlo, fašistoidno, rekoh li smeće, rekoh li podlo Što znači rekoh li ... rekoh li? You can translate it into English: You mean piece of junk, you fascist piece of junk ....?

Hi there. I moved to Croatia a few years ago and since I have been here I always see the inscription "šta da?" everywhere. I wonder what is the meaning of this phrase. Literally, this means "What? Yes" and makes no sense to me.

Hi there! Can someone tell me where in Croatia they speak the variety of Croatian that people (even if irrationally) regard as the "best" or "most correct" Croatian? I know that from the viewpoint of linguistics there is no such a thing, but socially, in most countries, ordinary people usually...

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...

I have an aunt named Slavenka; in our family (Dalmatian but have lived in Zagreb for a very long time), we pronounce it with the stress on the 2nd syllable (sla-VEN-ka). Another friend, from Zagreb, pronounces it with stress on the first syllable (SLA-ven-ka). What is the "rule" here or is it...

Koji je zavrsaven oblik rijeci ,,povjeravati''.

Hello, everybody! I have a question regarding Croatian declension of adjectives. I was yesterday listening to the song "Crno vino, crne oči" by Ivana Kovač, which I translate as "Red wine, black eyes" (I know that 'red wine' is said in Croatian either 'crno vino' or 'crveno vino'). But a...

Kako pravilno formulirati ovu rečenicu: Iznos / cijenu / svotu mogu vam doznačiti (da vam doznačim?) na vaš bankovni račun. I can transfer the amount (money) to your bank account. Kada želiš obaviti kupnju na internetu.

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

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."

Ima li hrvatski izraz za recalibration ili treba usvojiti strani izraz? "But it's not just a readjustment, it's a recalibration."

Please how to translate properly? It's the old frequency you that obeyed. That's the old frequency you that was wired into the old system, position of you is confusing.

"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...

Hello, First of all, I apologize for not being able to write this message in Croatian, as I don't speak the language. I recently read an article about the surname Grčić and its prevalence in Croatia. I would like to know how this surname is pronounced in its original form, that is, in...

Molim kako smisleno prevesti ovaj podebljani tekst da se uklopi i preostali dio recenice. and too it is part of the hookup.. and it's that flame of consciousness of universality that we all certainly resonate with and too it is part of the hookup of what we call the gold frequency...... moj...

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...

In a previous thread we talked about how the ‘h’ in ‘odmah se vraćam' is likely to become weak or disappear in normal rapid speech. But I suppose if you ask speakers of BCS whether they drop the ‘h’ there, most will deny it, just as educated English speakers will maintain they never ‘drop their...

Hello everybody I would like to know the difference between "ovu noć" and "ove noći". Are there any slight nuances or differences between both adverbs or are they unnoticeable synonyms? Context: Dođi sa mnom ovu noć/ove noći All the best from Spain i pozdrav Carlos M.S.

Do schoolchildren in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (apart from Republika Srpska, of course) learn to read Cyrillic, or are they in the same situation as the average English person who goes to Serbia, Russia, Bulgaria, etc. and thinks that the sign for restaurant reads "pektopaa"?

Most Northern English people pronounce "bus" with a different vowel from that used in Southern English (compare ovdje vs. ovde) and some Scottish people regularly use the word "bairns" for "children" (compare vlak vs. voz). When I lived in Northern England, I often pronounced "bus" in the...

Another thing you don't normally find in phrasebooks is expletives or swear words. I don't normally swear, but some people swear a lot, so it would be useful to know the most common expletives I'm likely to hear people saying (not to me, I hope, but when talking to each other!). In English, and...

Zdravo, Šta znači "ovih dana"? Hvala napred

The writers of phrasebooks seem to think that tourists only eat in restaurants and hotels, because they hardly ever include useful phrases for buying food. In a baker's in the UK, for example, you might not even know the correct names of the various buns, rolls and pastries on display, so you...

Molim dobar prijevod riječi "slate" u ovoj rečenici. You have that active force within you, which will totally wipe the slate clean. U sebi imate onu aktivnu silu koja će skroz obrisati (škriljevac??). ..............

Molim korigirajte moj nezadovoljavajući prevod ove rečenice: Implode that dense core frequency which holds together the material confidence of those who influence populations through fear, technology, suggestion and coercion.. kako prevesti Implode u ovom slučaju? i material confidence...

According to my dictionairy the word for money is 'novac' in Serbian and Croatian. This comes from nov (“new”) +‎ -ac, from an earlier *novi p(j)enez (“new money”) according to wiktionary I suppose this word came into existance when a new coin was introduced in Jugoslavian (or maybe earlier)...

Što/a znači "njofra"? Dali je to ime?

Što/a znači reč/riječ "bato" u frazi "Opa, bato!"

I've always wondered why ekavian and ijekavian also have this difference in how they say action phrases. Apologies in advance, as I don't know how they're actually called ... cases? For instance, in Serbia one might say "Hoćeš nešto da popiješ?", whereas in Bosnia and Croatia it would be "Hoćeš...

I don't know good translation for "the crunch" in this context. Please help me. English: "It is the giving and the taking, that is the natural rhythm of nature, through the actions, the crunch, the conscious control center of the human being, which wishes only for the betterment, the...

Molim ispravite mi ovaj prevod rečenice. Nema mi smisla to što ja razumijem. This is nothing short of opening ourselves to something that may not be in our best interest. To nije ništa kratko da se otvaramo prema nečemu šta možda nije u našem najboljem interesu. ............... if you need more...

Molim kako pravilno prevesti ovu rečenicu ili barem, "idea of timings on this" Does this mean that you have a good idea of timings on this? Da li to žnači da imate dobru ideju proračuna vremena o ovome..? Kompletno pitanje gdje se pojavljuje taj izraz: When do you see our health restored...

Da li mogu to prevesti ovako: Ono što vam je sugerirano da je neophodno, obavezno ili legalno -sve je samo vrući zrak, vi će te odlučiti što je to što hoćete učiniti, u vaše vrijeme.. What is suggested to you is necessary, is mandatory, or legal - is all hot air - and you will decide what it is...