budilka na telefonu
“budilka na telefonu” — phone alarm in Slovenian. Noun, level A1. budilka you know as the alarm clock; on the phone it stands in the locative na telefonu. In a live sentence: “Budilka na telefonu ni zvonila” — The phone alarm did not ring. You can hear how it sounds right here. A word from the everyday Slovenian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Slovenian | budilka na telefonu |
| Translation | phone alarm |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
- budilka na telefonuphone alarm
Why it looks that way
budilka you know as the alarm clock; on the phone it stands in the locative na telefonu.
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.
- Budilka na telefonu ni zvonilaThe phone alarm did not ring
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 “phone alarm” in Slovenian?
«budilka na telefonu». In a live sentence: “Budilka na telefonu ni zvonila” — The phone alarm did not ring. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
budilka you know as the alarm clock; on the phone it stands in the locative na telefonu. 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.