Explore Serbo through 10+ example sentences from English. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Serbo in a sentence
Context around Serbo
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 7 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Serbo
- In this selection, "serbo" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, numerous, makes, offices, croatian and croat stand out and add context to how "serbo" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1945 numerous serbo croatian words and administrative offices serbo croatian was. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "serbo" sits close to words such as aarons, abra and accelerations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with serbo
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Orthography Serbo-Croatian orthography is almost entirely phonetic. (8 words)
Serbo-Croatian Vocative case exists and is widely used. (9 words)
All variants of Serbo-Croatian were used in state administration and republican and federal institutions. (15 words)
Related words in a few modern Indo-European languages are Russian doroga (way, road), Polish droga (way, road), Czech dráha (way, track), Serbo-Croatian draga (path through a valley), and Norwegian dialect drog (trail of animals; valley). (37 words)
Croatian linguists The opinion of the majority of Croatian linguists is that there has never been a Serbo-Croatian language, but two different standard languages that overlapped sometime in the course of history. (33 words)
On one extreme, Serbo-Croatian preserves the system nearly unchanged (even more so in the conservative Chakavian dialect ); on the other, Macedonian has basically lost the system in its entirety. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
After 1945, numerous Serbo-Croatian words that had been used in the previous decades were dropped.
All in all, this makes Serbo-Croatian the only Slavic language to officially use both the Latin and Cyrillic scripts, albeit the Latin version is more commonly used.
All variants of Serbo-Croatian were used in state administration and republican and federal institutions.
Croatian linguists The opinion of the majority of Croatian linguists is that there has never been a Serbo-Croatian language, but two different standard languages that overlapped sometime in the course of history.
During the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the 1920s and 1930s, the influence of Serbo-Croatian increased again.
For examples, at the post offices, railways and in administrative offices, Serbo-Croatian was used together with Slovene.
For utilitarian purposes, the Serbo-Croatian language is often called "Naš jezik" ("Our language") or "Naški" (sic.
Howe (1998), p. 13 Later, Nation was pleasantly surprised to discover that in Serbo-Croatian the word "dalek" means "far", or "distant".
However, as in Serbo-Croatian, use of such accent marks is restricted to dictionaries, language textbooks and linguistic publications.
In exchange, these languages also borrowed words from Hungarian, e.g. Serbo-Croatian ašov from Hung ásó ‘spade’.
In former Yugoslavia, "Forum" publishing house translated Corsican in " Asterix in Corsica " into Montenegrin dialect of Serbo-Croatian (today called Montenegrin language ).
Intended for the Serbo-Croatian language (in all its varieties), it was patterned on the Czech alphabet of the 1830s.
Lowland dialects share some words and areal features with the languages surrounding them (Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian, and Romanian).
On one extreme, Serbo-Croatian preserves the system nearly unchanged (even more so in the conservative Chakavian dialect ); on the other, Macedonian has basically lost the system in its entirety.
Orthography Serbo-Croatian orthography is almost entirely phonetic.
Phonology main Vowels The Serbo-Croatian vowel system is simple, with only five vowels in Shtokavian.
Related words in a few modern Indo-European languages are Russian doroga (way, road), Polish droga (way, road), Czech dráha (way, track), Serbo-Croatian draga (path through a valley), and Norwegian dialect drog (trail of animals; valley).
Serbo-Croatian Vocative case exists and is widely used.
Serbo-Croat tensions over the structuring of the Yugoslav state continued, with the concept of a separate Bosnian division receiving little or no consideration.
The common phrase describing this situation was that Serbo-Croatian or "Croatian or Serbian" was a single language.