Learn Bosnian Through Topics You Actually Care About

LingoBear creates short Bosnian passages on topics you choose. Tap any word for an instant English translation and build your vocabulary as you read. South Slavic language using both Latin (Gajica) and Cyrillic alphabets, ~3M speakers, mutually intelligible with Croatian and Serbian.

Tap any word for instant translation

Every word in your Bosnian reading passage is clickable. Get English translations and grammar help — useful for parsing Bosnian's seven cases.

Read about topics you choose

Type any topic and LingoBear generates a fresh Bosnian reading passage — from ćevapi recipes to the Drina river.

How does Bosnian differ from Croatian and Serbian?

Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian are all standardised varieties of Shtokavian and are mutually intelligible to a very high degree — often described as a pluricentric language. Bosnian distinctively uses the sound /h/ in more words (kahva 'coffee'), preserves more Turkish and Arabic loanwords from the Ottoman period, and is written in both Latin and Cyrillic.

What grammar features should I expect in Bosnian?

Bosnian has seven noun cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, locative, instrumental), three genders, and a free word order largely conditioned by emphasis. Verbs use perfective and imperfective aspect pairs. LingoBear lets you see these patterns in real sentences via tap-to-translate.