English→Serbian (Bosnia & Herzegovina)

Translate English to Serbian (Bosnia & Herzegovina) like a local.

Ovaj srpski prepoznaje se po ijekavici, bosanskohercegovačkim razgovornim česticama poput „ba“ i svakodnevnim riječima poput „kafa“.

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What locals actually say

Where are you headed?

Kud si poš'o, ba?

„Kud“ i skraćeno „poš'o“ zvuče razgovorno, dok „ba“ označava prisno bosanskohercegovačko obraćanje.

Come by for coffee tomorrow morning.

Navrati sutra ujutro na kafu.

„Navrati“ znači doći nakratko, a „kafa“ je uobičajena svakodnevna riječ u Bosni i Hercegovini.

Are you coming over tonight, buddy?

Dolaziš li večeras, jarane?

„Jarane“ je prisno obraćanje od „jaran“, veoma često u opuštenom govoru u Bosni i Hercegovini.

The bill is twenty marks.

Račun je dvadeset maraka.

Marka is the everyday name for the convertible mark, the local currency in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Save me a piece of burek.

Ostavi mi komad bureka.

Burek specifically means the meat-filled pastry in Bosnia and Herzegovina, unlike broader regional usage.

Grandma is coming for the slava.

Baba nam dolazi na slavu.

Slava names the Serbian Orthodox family patron-saint celebration, while baba is a familiar local word for grandmother.

I’m working the second shift this week.

Ove sedmice radim drugu smjenu.

Sedmica and smjena are ijekavian forms strongly associated with Bosnian usage, rather than ekavian nedelja and smena.

It’s snowing heavily outside.

Vani pravo veje snijeg.

Vani and the intensifier pravo give this a colloquial Bosnian sound, while snijeg marks the local ijekavian pronunciation.

Notes like these come with every AIRTranslate translation, so you learn why locals phrase it that way as you go.

Bosnian-Serb standard: write EVERY reply in Cyrillic (ћирилица), never Latin; ijekavian; ti informal, Vi formal.

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