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Nevena (00:00)
Zdravo svima, ja sam Nevena.
Hello everyone, I’m Nevena.

Jelena (00:01)
Ja sam Jelena.
I’m Jelena.

Nevena (00:02)
I dobrodošli u novu epizodu Unlock Your Serbian sa Jelenom i Nevenom.
And welcome to a new episode of Unlock Your Serbian with Jelena and Nevena.

Jelena (00:06)
Dobrodošli u još jednu epizodu našeg podkasta. Danas razgovaramo o temi koju su izabrali naši članovi na Patreonu, a tema je srpska kinematografija. Pre nego što smo počele da snimamo ovu epizodu, rekla sam Neveni: „Ova tema nam svakako ne gine.” Nevena, hoćeš li da nam objasniš šta znači ovaj izraz „ne gine”?
Welcome to another episode of our podcast. Today we’re talking about a topic chosen by our Patreon members, and the topic is Serbian cinematography. Before we started recording this episode, I told Nevena: “This topic definitely won’t miss us.” Nevena, can you explain what this expression “ne gine” means?

Nevena (00:37)
Ovo je divan izraz koji nema veze sa pravim značenjem reči „ginuti”. Reč „ginuti” je jedan od mnogih sinonima za reč „umreti”. Jednom sam baš razmišljala o tome koliko mi zapravo imamo reči za pojam umiranja ili smrti, što je veoma… loše – ne znam zašto je to tako – ali „ginuti” je svakako jedna od tih reči.Međutim, kada kažemo da nam nešto „ne gine”, to nema veze sa umiranjem. To znači da će se nešto sigurno desiti u budućnosti. Na primer: Jelena i ja smo već imale ideju da snimimo epizodu o kinematografiji, ali nismo znale kada. Kada smo pitale naše članove na Patreonu, oni su izabrali ovu temu. I to je značilo da čak i da nismo sada izabrale ovu temu, mi bismo u nekom trenutku razgovarale o njoj. Dakle, ova tema nam „nije ginula”.
This is a wonderful expression that has nothing to do with the literal meaning of the verb “ginuti.” “Ginuti” is one of many synonyms for “to die.” I once thought about how many words we actually have for the concept of dying or death, which is… not great – I don’t know why that is – but “ginuti” is definitely one of those words. However, when we say something “won’t miss us” (ne gine), it has nothing to do with dying. It means something will definitely happen in the future. For example: Jelena and I already had the idea to record an episode about cinematography, but we didn’t know when. When we asked our Patreon members, they chose this topic. And that meant that even if we hadn’t chosen this topic now, we would have talked about it at some point. So this topic “was bound to happen.”

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