boli me trebuh
“boli me trebuh” — my stomach hurts in Slovenian. Phrase, level A2. final h sounds faintly but sounds: TREH-booh. In a live sentence: “Po večerji me je začel boleti trebuh” — After dinner my stomach started to hurt. You can hear how it sounds right here. A word from the everyday Slovenian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Slovenian | boli me trebuh |
| Translation | my stomach hurts |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
- boli me trebuhmy stomach hurts
How to pronounce it
final h sounds faintly but sounds: TREH-booh
Why it looks that way
trebuh is the belly outside; the stomach as an organ is želodec; children say trebušček; food trouble is boli me želodec; nausea is slabost, diarrhoea driska
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- Po večerji me je začel boleti trebuhAfter dinner my stomach started to hurt
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “my stomach hurts” in Slovenian?
«boli me trebuh». final h sounds faintly but sounds: TREH-booh. In a live sentence: “Po večerji me je začel boleti trebuh” — After dinner my stomach started to hurt. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level A2.
Why does this word look the way it does?
trebuh is the belly outside; the stomach as an organ is želodec; children say trebušček; food trouble is boli me želodec; nausea is slabost, diarrhoea driska. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
Can I hear how it sounds?
Yes, right on this page: click the word and it will play. The sound works on any phone, and nothing needs to be installed.