''Šatrovački'' (;

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: шатровачки) or ''šatra'' (;

: шатра) is an

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within the

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. Šatrovački was initially developed by various subcultures in

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, and became employed as a device of secret communication within various

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s. Today, it is primarily used among youth as a form of

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. It is more widespread in urban areas, such as capitals Belgrade (Serbia),

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(Croatia) and

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(Bosnia and Herzegovina).

Usual šatrovački

Words are formed by replacing the syllable order. For example: ''pivo'' (beer), becomes ''vopi''. The new word has the same meaning as the original word stem. Since the spelling is nearly phonetic it does not change. However, sometimes one of the vowels is changed to make the new word easier to pronounce, avoid ambiguity, or if the stem word is not in nominative. For example, ''trava'' ("grass", marijuana) would become ''vutra'' instead of ''vatra'' ("fire"). Some words are more commonly spoken in Šatrovački than others, but there is no specific rule. Examples of transformed sentences (although, most of the words in a single sentence are rarely transformed) are: *''Brate, neću da igram fudbal. — Tebra, ćune da grami balfud.'' ("Bro, I don't want to play football.") *''Zemun zakon brate. — Munze konza tebra.'' (literally: "

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is the law, bro" - meaning: "Zemun rules, dude") *''Pazi brate, murija! — Zipa tebra, rijamu!'' ("Watch out mate - cops!", ''murija'' slang for police)

Examples

* zeldi - dizel (''

Dizelaši __NOTOC__ Dizelaši (; singular dizelaš, ) was an urban street youth sub-culture popular in the 1990s in Serbia. It has been described as a mainstream fashion and social subculture, that of a working class, similar to the British ''chav'', French ...

'',

chav "Chav" (), also "charver", "scally" and "roadman" in parts of England, is a British term, usually used in a pejorative way. The term is used to describe an anti-social lower-class youth dressed in sportswear. * * * * "Chavette" is a related te ...

s) * ciba - baci (throw; imperative) * mojne - nemoj (don't; imperative) * loma - malo (a little, few) * tebra - brate (brother;

vocative In grammar, the vocative case (abbreviated ) is a grammatical case which is used for a noun that identifies a person (animal, object, etc.) being addressed, or occasionally for the noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numer ...

) * Ganci - Ciganin (Gypsy) * ljakse - seljak (peasant,

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) * zipa - pazi (watch out, pay attention; imperative) * tenkre - kreten ( retard) * zabr nahra - brza hrana ( fast food) * hopsi - psiho (

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) * vugla - glava (head, derived from

accusative The accusative case (abbreviated ) of a noun is the grammatical case used to mark the direct object of a transitive verb. In the English language, the only words that occur in the accusative case are pronouns: 'me,' 'him,' 'her,' 'us,' and ‘th ...

) * ljadro - drolja (

slut ''Slut (archaic: slattern)'' is an English-language term for a person, usually a woman or girl, who is considered to have loose sexual morals or who is sexually promiscuous. It is usually used as an insult, sexual slur or offensive term of d ...

) * vutra - trava (

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, marijuana) * fuka - kafa (

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) * gudra - droga (drugs) * vopi - pivo (beer) * suljpa - pasulj (beans) * vozdra - zdravo (hello) * dismr - smrdi (stinks) * žika - kaži (say, speak; imperative) * konza - zakon (law, great, excellent) * baldfu - fudbal (soccer) * vuspra - sprava (device,

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) * cupi - pica (cunny, pretty girl, usually

pejorative A pejorative or slur is a word or grammatical form expressing a negative or a disrespectful connotation, a low opinion, or a lack of respect toward someone or something. It is also used to express criticism, hostility, or disregard. Sometimes, a ...

) * rijamu - murija (cops, pejorative) * sajsi - sisaj (suck; imperative) * Šone - Nešo (

hypocorism A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for I ...

, usually

) * Šomi - Mišo (hypocorism, usually vocative) * Kizo - Zoki (hypocorism) * Rijama -

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* Kblo Konza - Blok Zakon (

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rules) * Munze Konza - Zemun Zakon (

rules) * tozla - zlato (gold) * pakšu - šupak (

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) * racku - kurac (dick, penis) * žmu - muž (husband) *Rajvosa -

* ne rise - ne seri (no shit, cut the crap; imperative) * sepra - prase (pig) * šipu - puši (smoke, blow; imperative)

Utrovački

Utrovački (Утровачки) is a more complex form of ''šatrovački''. Words are formed using: U + last part + ZA + first part + NJE. E.g. vikipedija (Wikipedia) becomes ukipedijazavinje. Today, utrovački is not widely used. Alternative Utrovački is same as above, but without "ZA", e.g. pivo (beer) becomes uvopinje, or cigare (cigarettes) becomes ugarecinje.

Syllable omission

A more simplified version of šatrovački is using only parts of the word, while excluding the first syllable, and is most commonly used among young people in

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. For example, koncert (concert) would be shorthened to cert. The rules of creating a new word that can be used in nominative while the stem is not apply similarly to standard šatrovački. An example of a full sentence would be: :: ''Drugar i ja idemo na koncert na Tvrđavi.'' (My friend and I are going to a concert on the Fortress) :: ''Gari i ja idemo na cert na Đavi.'' This is particularly characteristic of

Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pan ...

youth subculture, and is very rarely spoken outside of

Vojvodina Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Војводина}), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia. It lies within the Pannonian Basin, bordered to the south by the national capital ...

Common examples

* zika - muzika (music) * cert - koncert (concert) * Đava - tvrđava (fortress, almost exclusively refers to

Petrovaradin fortress Petrovaradin Fortress ( sr, Петроварадинска тврђава, Petrovaradinska tvrđava, ; hu, Péterváradi vár), nicknamed "Gibraltar on/of the Danube", is a fortress in the town of Petrovaradin, itself part of the City of Novi Sad ...

in Novi Sad) * gari - drugar (friend) * fika - trafika (news stand) * kić - sokić (diminutive of juice) * nica - stanica (station) * šulja - košulja (shirt) * lone - pantalone (trousers) * tike - patike (sneakers) * njačić - vinjačić ( Diminutive for Vinjak, an alcoholic drink similar to

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) * tija - kutija (box) * ljara - pepeljara (ashtray) * ljada - hiljada (thousand) * bica - torbica (small bag) * čka - pička (cunt, pussy) * pač - štampač (printer) * činka - palačinka (crêpe, pancake) * ler - diler (drug dealer, usually of marijuana) * ket - paket (package or anything packed or wrapped) * ćoza - kaprićoza (usually refers to

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, but can be used for any kind of pizza)

Adding syllables

A very rare but present form of expression found in the Belgrade projects (blokovi). Words are reconstructed by adding various suffixes so that the original word remains relatively intact. Usually, the basis is šatrovački. The resulting words have a generally diminutive meaning.

Examples

* kajblo or kićblo - blok (Blok of suburb

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) * kićso or kajso - sok (juice) * pajdo - dop (heroin) These diminutives can later be combined using the Šatrovački method, resulting in words like ''kajblo'', or ''kićblo''. It is hard to locate the origin of this version of the urban dialect, but it is found in neighbourhoods of

Karaburma Karaburma ( sr-cyr, Карабурма) is an urban neighborhood of the municipality of Palilula, Belgrade, Serbia. As of 2002, it has a population of 55,343 inhabitants. Name The name, Karaburma, is Turkish for ''black ring'' which is suppo ...

and

. Also there is another type of šatrovački, where the words are reconstructed by addition of letter P followed by the vowel preceding the inserted P after each syllable. Since syllables, usually, end on a vowel that vowel is repeated after the inserted P as follows: šapatropovapačkipi (ša+pa-tro+po-va+pa-čki+pi)

Examples

* dipizepel - dizel (chav) * bapacipi - baci (throw) * nepemopoj - nemoj (don't) * mapalopo - malo (some) * brapatepe - brate (brother) * cipigapan - cigan (gypsy) * pepedeper - peder (homosexual) * sepeljapak - seljak (peasant) * papazipi - pazi (pay attention) * krepetepen - kreten (idiot)

References

External links

Vukajlija slang dictionary

Žargonaut - Croatian slang dictionary
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Usual šatrovački

Examples

Utrovački

Syllable omission

Common examples

Adding syllables

Examples

Examples

See also

References

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