Lesson 12. What's your name?
In the last lesson we said hello. Now we’re going to introduce ourselves.
What’s your name?
How to answer
You can also say it in a shorter way:
Ja sam means “I am” or simply “I”. The little word sam is important — it’s a form of the verb “to be”. We’ll look at it in detail later.
Nice to meet you
A dialogue
Exercises
Exercise 1
How do you say «My name is Marko»?
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Correct: Zovem se Marko. The first option is a question — “What’s your name, Marko?” — and the third means “Nice to meet you, Marko”.
Exercise 2
Translate into Serbian: «I'm Ana.»
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Answer: Ja sam Ana.
Zovem se Ana. is also fine — both versions are correct.
Exercise 3
Imagine you’ve just met a friend. How do you ask their name?
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Kako se zoveš? — to a friend, informal. To an adult you don’t know, polite: Kako se zovete?.
Exercise 4
Continue the dialogue: «— Zdravo! Kako se zoveš? — …»
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For example: Zdravo! Zovem se [your name]. A ti? or Ja sam [name]. Drago mi je!
Exercise 5
Write in Cyrillic: Kako se zoveš? Zovem se Marko. Drago mi je.
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Како се зовеш? Зовем се Марко. Драго ми је.
Lesson vocabulary
- Kako se zoveš? (Како се зовеш?)
- — what's your name? (informal)
- Kako se zovete? (Како се зовете?)
- — what's your name? (polite/plural)
- Zovem se… (Зовем се…)
- — my name is…
- Ja sam… (Ја сам…)
- — I'm…
- Drago mi je (Драго ми је)
- — nice to meet you
- A ti? (А ти?)
- — and you?