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What is this?
There's a certain amount of words which came into both serbian and english from other languages, mostly latin, but have different meanings in each language.
Even native english words may mean something else in serbian, for several reasons:
1) they were misunderstood when coming into serbian
2) they were understood well first time, but changed their meaning in english in the meantime
3) they were understood well first time, but changed their meaning in serbian afterwards
Of course, there is also all the greek and latin which is wrongly used in english - just look up what "pathetic" originally meant, and check how it's used today.
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in English
in Serbian it means
is similar to
which means
absolve
osloboditi odgovornosti
apsolvirati
be done with, finish attending (to)
accent
dijakritički znak na slovu, zanošenje u govoru (na drugi jezik); dekorativni element (uz nameštaj)
akcent
stress on a syllable
accord
sporazum
akord
chord (mus.)
act
zakon; čin; tačka (estradna); gluma
akt
painting of a nude; official document
action
dejstvo
akcija
stock, share
actual
stvaran, koji jeste
aktuelan
of the day, en vogue, novelty, current
advocate
zastupnik
advokat
lawyer
affair
delo, posao, slučaj
afera
political scandal (as in "the Profumo affair"), high level embezzlement, treason, spying operation gone wrong - nothing smaller is an "afera"
after all
napokon, na kraju krajeva
posle svega
when all is said and done
aggregate
zbir, celina, ukupno
agregat
power generator with engine, taken as a whole; a group of generators in a power plant
ante
polog za partiju pokera ili druge kockarske igre, čip
ante
before, ahead of, forward
apartment
stan
apartman
hotel suite
arbitrage
istovremena prodaja i kupovina nečega na raznim mestima i profitiranje na razlici
arbitraža
getting a verdict in a dispute from an independent and agreed upon authority, outside court
arcade
hodnik sa lučnim svodovima; građevina sa arkadnim hodnicima; kategorija video igara kakve su se isprva igrale u tzv. "arkadama za groš" na mašinama gde se ubacivao novac
arkada
the bone above the eye, usually hurt in a boxing match
argument
rasprava, svađa
argument
statement known to be true, used to prop or prove another statement
armed
naoružan, otkočen (oružje)(i već je bilo greške u prevodu zbog ovog)
armiran
reinforced (concrete only)
army
kopnene snage
armija
the military in general; one country's armed forces
article
član (gramatički, pravni)
artikal
item (of clothing, or any other commodity)
articulated
zglobni, člankovit
artikulisan
clearly pronounced
athlete
sportista
atleta
hunk
audience
publika
audijencija
conversation with a king
authority
ovlašćenje
autoritet
expert whose views are taken as definitive