Category:Serbo-Croatian terms by usage

Serbo-Croatian terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.

• Category:Serbo-Croatian terms with archaic senses: Serbo-Croatian terms with individual senses that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature, sometimes still used for special effect, and typically recognized by native speakers.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian archaic terms: Serbo-Croatian terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature, sometimes still used for special effect, and typically recognized by native speakers.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian censored spellings: Serbo-Croatian spellings where some characters have been changed in an effort to reduce the shock value of the original term.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian childish terms: Serbo-Croatian terms that are typically only used by, or to, children.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian colloquialisms: Serbo-Croatian terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian dated terms: Serbo-Croatian terms that are no longer fashionable and thus are anachronistic, but still sometimes in use, especially by older speakers.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian derogatory terms: Serbo-Croatian terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian dialectal terms: Serbo-Croatian terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian endearing terms: Serbo-Croatian terms that are used to show affection or endearment to another person.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian expressive terms: Serbo-Croatian terms with additional expressive content compared with the basic meaning of the term.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian familiar terms: Serbo-Croatian terms whose use is typically to contexts of friendly intimacy.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian formal terms: Serbo-Croatian terms whose use is typically restricted to polite, ceremonious, non-casual contexts.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian higher register terms: Serbo-Croatian terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian humorous terms: Serbo-Croatian terms that are humorous, amusing or joking.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian informal terms: Serbo-Croatian terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian nonstandard terms: Serbo-Croatian terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian terms with obsolete senses: Serbo-Croatian terms with individual senses that are no longer in use and not usually recognized by native speakers, but still sometimes found in older literature.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian obsolete terms: Serbo-Croatian terms that are no longer in use and not usually recognized by native speakers, but still sometimes found in older literature.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian offensive terms: Serbo-Croatian terms that are typically considered to offend people.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian officialese terms: Serbo-Croatian terms that are chiefly used by official sources, and are often bureaucratic-sounding.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian poetic terms: Serbo-Croatian terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian proscribed terms: Serbo-Croatian terms whose usage is proscribed; thus, they are considered wrong according to prescriptive sources.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian terms with rare senses: Serbo-Croatian terms with individual senses that are rarely found in general use and may not be recognized by some native speakers.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian rare terms: Serbo-Croatian terms that are rarely found in general use and may not be recognized by some native speakers.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian rustic terms: Serbo-Croatian terms whose use is typically restricted rural speech.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian slang: Serbo-Croatian colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian technical terms: Serbo-Croatian terms that are usually or exclusively used in technical/scientific writing.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian terms with historical senses: Serbo-Croatian terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian terms with uncertain meaning: Serbo-Croatian terms whose meaning is unknown or disputed.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian trademarks: Serbo-Croatian terms that identify legal entities, their products and services, by means of legal protection — to some extent, in a number of jurisdictions — against unauthorized use of the terms.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian terms with uncommon senses: Serbo-Croatian terms with individual senses that are in general use but not common.
• Category:Serbo-Croatian vulgarities: Serbo-Croatian terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.