Serbian 801 — eight minutes of a podcast, and the vocabulary you need to argue about television.
Talking about a series is its own little register, and it is almost entirely collocation. Get the pairing wrong and the sentence is still grammatical, just faintly foreign.
| Kolokacija | English | Note |
|---|---|---|
| likovi su dobro razrađeni | the characters are well developed | from razraditi — to work out in detail |
| zaplet se odvija u više slojeva | the plot unfolds on several levels | odvijati se is what plots, events and negotiations do |
| iziskuje puno vremena | it demands a lot of time | bookish; zahteva is the everyday twin |
| likovi ostaju verni sebi | the characters stay true to themselves | veran + dative |
Two words are worth separating carefully. Zaplet is the plot in the sense of how the story is knotted — from zaplesti, to tangle. Radnja is the action, what actually happens. A Serbian critic will say radnja se odvija sporo about pacing, but zaplet je jednolinijski about structure.
And razrađen is the compliment you want to be able to give. It means somebody thought the thing through — used about characters, about arguments, about plans, and it is high praise in all three.
Podkast i kolokacije
Listen to the first eight minutes, then place each word in its collocation.
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