Slovenski Kotiček (Slovenian Corner)

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EXERCISE 6: Translate these sentences:

1. She is not in England - Ona ni v Angliji
2. We are not in Spain - Mi nismo v Spaniji
3. They are not in Germany - Oni niso v Nemčiji
4. You (pl.) are not in Slovenia - Vi niste v Sloveniji
5. I am not in Italy - Nisem v Italiji
6. You are not in Russia - Nisi v Rusiji

EXERCICE 7: Translate the following sentences:

restavracija - restaurant / gostilna - pub / prijatelj - friend / delo - work / dekle - girl / žena - wife / okno - window / letališče - airport / dan - day / mama - mother / mož - husband.

1. My restaurant - Moja restavracija
2. Your pub - Tvoja gostilna
3. His airport - Njegovo letališče
4. Their husband - Njihov mož
5. My girl - Moje dekle
6. Her window - Njeno okno
7. Your (pl.) mother - Vaša mama
8. Our friend - Naš prijatelj
9. Their day - Njihov dan
10. My wife - Moja žena
11. Her work - Njeno delo

[Car]

EXERCISE 6

1. She is not in England.

Ona ni v Angliji.

2. We are not in Spain.

Nismo v Španiji.

3. They are not in Germany.

Niso v Nemčiji.

4. You (pl.) are not in Slovenia.

Niste v Sloveniji.

5. I am not in Italy.

Nisem v Italiji.

6. You are not in Russia.

Nisi v Rusiji.

EXERCICE 7

1. My restaurant

Moja restavracija.

2. Your pub

Tvoja gostilna.

3. His airport

Njegovo letališče.

4. Their husband

Nijhov mož.

5. My girl

Moje dekle. (Does Slovenian follow grammar here?)

6. Her window

Njeno okno.

7. Your (pl.) mother

Tvoja mama.

8. Our friend

Naš prijatelj.

9. Their day

Nijhov dan.

10. My wife

Moja žena.

11. Her work

Njeno delo.

@ekalin: If I'm a bot, than you lusophones are talkative "taking over Unilang" bots.

Fenek, you once said that there's a keyboard which supports the most letters needed for Eastern European languages. Which one? Because AllChars doesn't support of all them and even those that are supported (officially) don't work. I'm used to qwertz, as you know.

[Fenek]

2. We are not in Spain - Mi nismo v Spaniji

Španiji

[Fenek]

Fenek, you once said that there's a keyboard which supports the most letters needed for Eastern European languages. Which one? Because AllChars doesn't support of all them and even those that are supported (officially) don't work. I'm used to qwertz, as you know.

If you prefer QWERTZ, there is no problem. You can install any Central (as we call it, I know it's Eastern to you) European keyboard: Polish(214), Czech (QWERTZ), Slovak (QWERTZ), Hungarian, Slovenian, Croatian... All of them allow you to type every Central European (Latin) character by pressing AltGr + appropriate number key and then a letter key. You can see keyboard layouts at http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/keyboards.aspx and choose the one you like best.

I haven't found any mistake in your exercises

[Car]

Hvala!

I'll take the Slovenian then. I know at least some of those countries are Central European, but they are still Eastern to me, blame politics...

Off-topic: Did you know that Pons offers an online dictionary for Polish<->German (as well as German<->English, French, Spanish, and Italian)? It's even listed before Spanish.

[Fenek]

I'll take the Slovenian then. I know at least some of those countries are Central European, but they are still Eastern to me, blame politics...

Off-topic: Did you know that Pons offers an online dictionary for Polish<->German (as well as German<->English, French, Spanish, and Italian)? It's even listed before Spanish.

Yeah, I think the Slovenian keyboard is nice, it has keys with all Slovenian and Serbo-Croatian letters. And AltGr allows you to type all Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian and Romanian characters. The only nasty feature is that QWERTZ layout But it's an advantage to you

I didn't know that online dictionary. BTW Pons published a lot of dictionaries and phrasebooks in Poland, but I haven't bought any. I was only tempted by their Polish-Bulgarian phrasebook, the only Bulgarian phrasebook available in Poland. But eventually, I haven't bought it.

[Car]

Let's see: šŠđĐžŽćĆčČ. Nice. Although the Alt Gr keys don't work as they should...

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I'm also using the Slovenian keyboard

[Car]

And does Alt Gr + something work for you, pa?

[Fenek]

Let's see: šŠđĐžŽćĆčČ. Nice. Although the Alt Gr keys don't work as they should...

Hmm... it works for me. This is what I do:
1) I press (Right ALT) and (5) simultaneously
2) I press (U)
And what I get is:

ů

Because (5) is the number key for the diacritic °

[Fenek]

I don't press all three keys simultaneously. I press (RAlt)+(5), I release them, then I press (U).

There are only two CE characters which cannot be typed in this way:

Łł (the proper way is (AltGr)+(L), (AltGr)+(K) )
Đđ (they have their own key in the Slovenian keyboard)

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Yes, it works for me too...

ů

[Luís]

That ů is quite interesting.
If I didn't know better, I'd say it would be used to write some Scandinavian language, not Czech

[Car]

I don't even have a Right Alt key...

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LESSON 2

Days of the week

These are the days of the week:

ponedeljek - monday
torek - tuesday
sreda - wednesday
četrtek - thursdaz
petek - friday
sobota - saturday
nedelja - sunday

But, to say 'on (a day)', you must change the last -a to -o and add 'v' before:

v ponedeljek
v torek
v sredo
v četrtek
v petek
v soboto
v nedeljo

When a certain action takes place on a certain day of EACH week, you use the preposition 'ob'. Days of the week ending in -a take an -h ending and the rest drop the semi-silent -e- and take an -ih ending:

ob ponedeljkih
ob torkih
ob sredah
ob četrtkih
ob petkih
ob sobotah
ob nedeljah

Verb Imeti (to have)

Affirmative - Negative

Imam - Nimam
Imaš - Nimaš
Ima - Nima
Imamo - Nimamo
Imate - Nimate
Imajo - Nimajo

Some expressions with Imeti

Imaš prav - You're right.
Imam smolo - You have bad luck.
Imam srečo - I am lucky.
Nimam sreče - I have no luck.
Kdaj? - When?
Sem doma - I am at home.

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EXERCISE 9: Write this story in direct speech (convert this text into a dialogue):

"Sabina doesn't have time on Tuesday. Denies has no luck. Denis doesn't have time on Wednesdays. Sabina has bad luck. Sabina is at home all day on Thursday and Denis also has time on Thursday evening."

EXERCISE 10: Translate these sentences into English:

1. Imaš srečo.
2. Imamo prav.
3. Sem v Sloveniji.
4. Imajo smolo.
5. Ona ni doma.
6. Ob sobotah nimaš sreče.
7. V torek smo v gostilni.
8. Nimaš prav.

EXERCISE 11: Translate these sentences into Slovenian:

1. I am in Slovenia on Saturday.
2. You have bad luck.
3. We are not in Russia.
4. On Thursdays she is at home.
5. Is he at home on tuesday?
6. We are lucky.
7. They are not at home.
8. It is not in Italy.
9. My girl is not at home on sundays.
10. Her window, your airport, their day, his work.
11. Your (pl.) mother, their restaurant, our pub, my wife.
12. Their wife has bad luck on tuesdays.
13. We are not in Germany on friday.
14. Her friend isn't right: we are in Russia on thursday.
15. Your (pl.) husband has no luck in America.

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Fenek:

What's the difference between these two expressions?

ta torek
v torek

[jururu]

I use English(US), Portuguese(Brazil) and Croatian keyboards.

I don't know if Slovenian keyboard has c'

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You mean ć ?

[Fenek]

What's the difference between these two expressions?

ta torek
v torek

ta torek = this Tuesday
v torek = on Tuesday