Serbian House Vocabulary

House and home in Serbian: Fun Facts

If you speak a Slavic language, like Russian, you know that dom means house. But in Serbian, the word for house is kuća, and dom means home.

But it’s a little bit mixed up part of the Serbian house vocabulary.

Here’s why. “I’m going home” in Serbian sounds “Idem kući”, but in south Serbia they’ll say “Dom si idem”, and in Croatian “Idem doma”.

Also, housewife is called domaćica, and your Serbian host is domaćin.

I hope you write your domaći zadatak (home work) regularyl!

Home made food is the best: domaća hrana.

Now let’s move on to the words that describe particular parts of our homes.

Serbian house vocabulary: parts of the house

Read the word and click on the play icon to listen to the native speaker and practice pronunciation.

prvi sprat

first floor

drugi sprat

second fl.

krov

roof

dimnjak

chimney

Serbian house vocabulary: rooms

We have two words for a room in Serbian: soba and prostorija. The two words are similar, but distinct. Prostorija is actually a wider notion and includes soba.

Soba includes living room, bedroom, working room or home office. Prostorija includes kitchen, corridor, bathroom, anteroom and every soba too.

Let’s learn all the rooms in a house – sve prostorije u kući:

kuhinja

kitchen

kupatilo

bathroom

hodnik

corridor

Serbian house vocabulary: in a room

There are many thins we have in our rooms. We’ll list the basic ones here. For all the furniture and other room details, and also to learn how to use these words in proper sentences, refer to the course Moj dom (My Home).

vrata

door

prag

doorstep

peć

furnace

radijator

radiator

Serbian house vocabulary: outside the house

Here are some important things we have outside our houses. Read along!

stepenik

step

stepenište

staircase