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Praznični Pozdravi

Serbian 201, Exercise 4 — the greetings you'll actually need in December, January and at Easter, and the grammar hiding inside them.

Nearly every Serbian holiday wish starts with the same adjective — and it changes ending to match whatever comes next, exactly like dobar / dobra / dobro:

srećan + masculine — srećan Božić, srećan rođendan, srećan Vaskrs
srećna + feminine — srećna Nova godina, srećna slava
srećni + plural — srećni novogodišnji praznici, srećni praznici

Two of these greetings work as a call and response — one person says the first half, the other answers. At Christmas: Hristos se rodi!Vaistinu se rodi! At Easter: Hristos vaskrse!Vaistinu vaskrse! You'll most often see them written in Cyrillic — Христос се роди, Христос васкрсе.

One thing you'll notice out in the wild: people often write Srećnu Novu godinu instead of Srećna Nova godina. Both are correct — the first is the accusative, left over from the full sentence Želim ti srećnu Novu godinu. Here we're practising the plain form.

1. Srećan, srećna ili srećni?

1. Božić! — Merry Christmas

2. Nova godina! — Happy New Year

3. rođendan! — Happy birthday

4. novogodišnji praznici! — Happy New Year holidays

5. Vaskrs! — Happy Easter

2. Pozdrav i odgovor

Za Božić / At Christmas Hristos se ! — Christ was born
se rodi! — Truly He was born

Za Vaskrs / At Easter Hristos ! — Christ is risen
Vaistinu ! — Indeed He is risen

5. — thanks

6. sve — say hello to everyone

3. Prevedi ceo pozdrav na srpski

1. Happy New Year

2. Merry Christmas

3. Christ was born

4. Truly He was born

5. Happy birthday

6. Thanks

7. Happy New Year holidays

8. Say hello to everyone

9. Christ is risen

10. Indeed He is risen

11. Happy Easter

SR (lat): Odgovori nisu osetljivi na velika/mala slova, i može latinicom ili ćirilicom. Dijakritici su opcioni (srećan / srecan). Reči odvojiti jednim razmakom.

СР (ћир): Одговори нису осетљиви на велика/мала слова, и може латиницом или ћирилицом. Дијакритици су опциони. Речи одвојити једним размаком.

EN: Answers are not case-sensitive, and can be typed in Latin or Cyrillic script. Diacritics are optional. Separate words with a single space.

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Possessive endings are next — moj, tvoj, njen, njegov, and the gender of whatever they're attached to.

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