In Serbia, every degree of relative has its name. It’s quite opposite than aunts and uncles in English. In Serbia, aunts (tetke) are only sisters of either mother or father. All female cousins that are in laws, have different names. Also, uncle (ujak) is only mother’s brother, while father’s brother is called stric. If you think it’s easy, there’s a real treat: Serbians are all brothers (braca) and sisters (sestre), not cousins. So we have brother/sister from the aunt (brat/sestra od tetke), brother/sister from the uncle (brat/sestra od ujaka) and brother/sister from stric (brat/sestra od strica). I had to use Serbian word in order to distinguish it from other relatives, mentioned above.
I wrote all this in order to give you a key for solving this quiz.
Enjoy!
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Question of
How we call tetka’s husband?
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teca/tetak
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ujak
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stric
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Question of
How we call ujak’s wife?
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ujna
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strina
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tetka
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Question of
How we call stric’s wife?
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ujna
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strina
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tetka
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Question of
Could you tetka be unmarried?
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Yes
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No
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Question of
Could your ujna be unmarried?
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Yes
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No
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Question of
What is to me my father brother’s son?
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sestra od ujaka
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brat od strica
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brat od tece
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Question of
What is to me my mother brother’s daughter?
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sesta od ujaka
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sestra od tetke
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brat od strica
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Question of
What I am to my fathers sister’s children?
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brat od ujaka
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sestra od tetke
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sestra od strica
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Very nice. Nice to know about your friends family
Thanks. 🙂 I thought it would be interesting to introduce Serbian names for cousins and relatives. 🙂
Very nice friend Zaklina Maca Miljkovic
Thank you for these kind words. 🙂
Thank you again dear Zaklina
Very good quiz, bravo Zaklina.
Thank you, Robin. 🙂 I hope you enjoyed. 🙂
Za svaki dobar tekst sam tu.
I’m here for every good text.
Thanks for such a nice compliment. 🙂
Good to know about your family.
Thanks, although it isn’t about my family, but about relatives names in Serbian. 🙂 I thought i might be interesting…. 🙂
Good anyway, it is really fine.
Thanks. 🙂 I appreciate it. 🙂
oh really have a good job
Thank you very much. 🙂
oh really have a good quiz
Thanks for the appreciation. 🙂
This was quite confusing to me, I only got 2 correct, what a shame 🙁
No shame at all, you were perfect 🙂 It’s hard to get all these at first time, because it’s so different from everything you know. Thanks for playing, I hope you had fun. 🙂
…got 2/8…my comprehension is very poor but I got fun learning new language…good job for ur quiz 🙂
Thanks:) You made an effort and that’s great. Luckily, it’s neither competition, nor exam, so you can learn something new with no stress at all. I am glad you had fun. 🙂
5 of 8 mostly guess. you have a lovely family 🙂
Thanks 🙂 You did an excellent job here. 🙂
Half right and half wrong, but I don’t even know what a second cousin twice removed is and I’ve had it explained to me so many times…
You did excellent! It is very hard to understand it at first. 🙂
lineage blows my mind. Screw family trees, if you can’t explain it with a matryoska, then I don’t want to know…
Don’t be such a baby. Family trees are so interesting. Everyone has at least one monkey, swinging on branches. 😀
I just can’t figure out that whole third cousin twice removed thing
You got 6 out of 8 right!
Excellent! You could be a Serbian!
I should be able to score fully because I was once a Serbian. But maybe it was hundreds of years ago, so six is fair.
I can tell that you was a fine Serbian gentleman at that time. 🙂
Are you sure you ever knew me in those days?
Of course, we were pals. Don’t you remember? 😀
I remember now! You are a fellow soldier who defends me when drunk and beaten by thieves.
Still confused but guessed and got 3 correct!
Hahahahaha! No doubt, you are. Still, when you get it once, you’ll see it’s easier and more precising way to determine cousins. Wait for advanced level. 😀 Thanks for playing! 🙂
I’m confused … but oh well, not totally lost …hehe
Hahahaha! It’s just for fun. I knew it will be confusing for most of the people here, but not like it’s an exam or something. Hope you enjoyed, because I am going to post advanced level, soon. 😀
“Excellent! You could be a Serbian!” I got only the last one wrong (and I still don’t get it!) Let me try:
What I am to my fathers sister’s children?
You are their mother’s brother’s daughter
ujak is mother’s brother
So, I worked out that you must be sestra od ujaka
But the correct answer above says sestra od tetke. No I don’t get it! 😀
I love the photos! Especially the beard on the man in the middle, with blue shirt. Which one are you, Zaklina?
Oh, sorry, I made a mistake, because “I” refers to me (Zaklina). And also, it seems that I noted the wrong answer, last night, because I was sleepy. 😀 Anyway, you’re a perfect candidate for being a Serbian. 😀
I am not the bearded one, although we look alike. 😀 It’s my brother and I am standing next to my father (the older bearded guy). 😀
Oh, your brother does look like you! And I thought that was you with your dad, but I didn’t want to say in case I was wrong 🙂 This is a great quiz, I forgot to say. Really gets the brain working!
Thanks a lot! 🙂 And this is a photo from my brother’s wedding. So, my nearest family is there (only my sister in law is not our blood kin). I sent a request for fixing the wrong answer, but when I checked it, I was embarrassed how many spell and grammar errors I’ve made.
Well it is funny that I didn’t notice any mistakes of spelling or grammar (or maybe it was just enough to give the text your accent!)
It’s a great photo of everyone. And nobody is fat – despite the title ??
Oh it sounds very confusing, it would definitely take some getting used to for foreigners.
Hahahaha! Not at all. Once when you learn, you realize that it’s easier to distinguish cousins properly, that way. 🙂
You got 6 out of 8 right!
Excellent! You could be a Serbian!
Thanks was fun. I have not forgotten some of the Serbian words. We are neighbors.
Bravo, neighbor! I realized that yesterday, when I saw your post about ruined country houses. 🙂 Thanks for playing! 🙂
You got 8 out of 8 right!
Excellent! You could be a Serbian!
Oh, really? 😀 You should give some advance to foreigners. 😀 Thanks for playing! 🙂