- 1n/ˈsɜːrbiən/ · /ˈsɜːbiən/Serbian language塞爾維亞語
The South Slavic language used in Serbia, one form of ; inside Serbia it is usually written in the alphabet.
文法不可數名詞:通常不加 a/an,也不加 -s 來表示複數。
英文裡語言名稱不可數。所以這個意思前面不加 a,也沒有複數。像 speak Serbian、learn Serbian、in Serbian。S 一樣要大寫。它是 Serbo-Croatian(塞爾維亞─克羅埃西亞語)的一種方言,它也是這個語言在塞爾維亞人之間的標準形式,另外還有一個歷史用法,指整個 Serbo-Croatian 在塞爾維亞的說法。這是同一種話的兩種描述方式。另外,在塞爾維亞境內通常用西里爾字母書寫。
示範例句 · Example
She speaks Serbian at home and English at school.
中文翻譯她在家說塞爾維亞語,在學校說英語。
Language names in English are uncountable, so this sense takes no a and has no plural: speak Serbian, learn Serbian, in Serbian, a word of Serbian. The capital S stays. It is a dialect of Serbo-Croatian, and it is also the standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian spoken by Serbs, with a historical use where the name covered Serbo-Croatian in general as spoken in Serbia. Those are different ways of describing the same speech.
常見搭配
speak Serbian
說塞爾維亞語
to be able to use this language
Does anyone here speak Serbian?
in Serbian
用塞爾維亞語
written or said using this language
The letter was written in Serbian.
learn Serbian
學塞爾維亞語
to study this language
He started to learn Serbian after he moved there.
意思相近
- 2n/ˈsɜːrbiən/ · /ˈsɜːbiən/person from Serbia塞爾維亞人
A person who comes from Serbia; a .
文法可數名詞:前面可以加 a/an,要表示複數時常常加 -s。
這個意思可數,所以前面加 a,複數是 Serbians。S 一樣大寫。這裡把 Serbian 和 Serb 當成同一件事,「塞爾維亞的居民」和「Serb」兩條也都放在這個名詞底下。日常用起來,Serbian 比較偏「從那個國家來的人」,Serb 是比較短的那個字,常用來指這個族群。兩者的界線沒有畫死。所以把它們看成互相重疊,比說成兩個不同的東西更貼近事實。
This one is countable, so it takes a or an and has a plural, Serbians. The capital S stays. Serbian and Serb are treated as the same thing here, and both a native or inhabitant of Serbia and a Serb are listed under this noun. In ordinary use, Serbian tends to point at where someone is from and Serb is the shorter word often used for the people as a group; the line between them is not sharp, so it is fair to describe them as overlapping rather than as two separate things.
常見搭配
a Serbian
一個塞爾維亞人
one person from Serbia
The new coach is a Serbian.
Serbians and Croatians
塞爾維亞人和克羅埃西亞人
people from the two neighbouring countries
Serbians and Croatians both live in the neighborhood.
意思相近
用法接近
CroatianBosnian