This research aims to produce a systematic account of the representation of men and women in the Serbian language by analysing adjectival attributes of the Serbian nounsčovek (man),žena (woman/female/wife), muškarac (male) and muž (husband). The analysis was performed on data obtained from the Corpus of Contemporary Serbian Language (SrpKor2013) in its advanced search mode, and it encompasses all adjectival words that occur with sufficient frequency with at least one of the four nouns.

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... the adjectival words with an attributive function was done by reviewing the concordances, and the selected adjectival words were subjected to further analysis and classification. These adjectives do not occur with the noun muž, and they have the highest frequency with the nounčovek (1.25%). In this, group, the adjective that has the highest frequency with one of the nouns is the adjective običan with the nouň covek (0.69%), and the most frequent noun phrases are običančovek (448), pravǐ covek (125) and prosečančovek (63). Group 9: Belonging. Depending on the type of belonging that they attribute to the person the noun refers to, these adjectival words are classified into seven subgroups: Subgroup Serbian English 9.1. Sequence prvi, drugi, treći,četvrti, peti, sesti, sedmi, deseti, dvanaesti, poslednji; the first, the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, the seventh, the tenth, the twelfth, the last; Period and culture savremen,