koliko stane?
“koliko stane?” — how much does it cost? in Slovenian. Phrase, level A0, topic — shopping and money. One thing: koliko stane. Several: koliko stanejo. In a shop a bare koliko? is enough. In a live sentence: “Koliko stane kava?” — How much does the coffee cost? You can hear how it sounds right here. One of 82 words in the set “shopping and money” in the Slovenian course.
In short
| Written in Slovenian | koliko stane? |
| Translation | how much does it cost? |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A0 |
- koliko stane?how much does it cost?
Why it looks that way
One thing: koliko stane. Several: koliko stanejo. In a shop a bare koliko? is enough.
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.
- Koliko stane kava?How much does the coffee cost?
Nearby words: shopping and money
How much it costs, whether there is a smaller one, whether cards are accepted. A shop forgives mistakes: miss a word and they will show you the thing with their hands anyway.
- evroeurov before a consonant sounds like "u": EH-oo-roh
- trgovinashopFrom trg, the square where trade happened. It is the shop itself, not "trade".
- tržnicamarketž is "zh"; no written vowel before r: tuhrzh-NEE-tsah
- pultcounterš is "sh"
- prodajalecsellerj is "y", c is "ts": pro-DAH-yah-lets
- kupecbuyerc is "ts": KOO-pets
- tehtnicascalethe h sounds, c is "ts": TEHHT-nee-tsah
- kilogramkilogram (unit)At the market people say the short kila: dve kili jabolk. Two kilograms take the dual: dva kilograma.
- svežfreshfinal ž devoices: svesh
- zrelripel at the end of a syllable sounds like "u"
Test yourself
Five questions from the same set — “shopping and money”. Recalling a spelling from meaning is harder than knowing a familiar word on sight, and therefore more useful.
- How do you say “how much does it cost?” in Slovenian?
One thing: koliko stane. Several: koliko stanejo. In a shop a bare koliko? is enough.
- How do you say “scale” in Slovenian?
Singular here, whatever your habit says: ta tehtnica. From tehtati, "to weigh".
- How do you say “market” in Slovenian?
Also from trg. The central one in Ljubljana is Plečnikove tržnice, on the river bank.
- How do you say “ripe” in Slovenian?
The same root serves about people: a mature person is zrel too.
- How do you say “buyer” in Slovenian?
One root, two sides of the counter: prodajalec sells, kupec buys.
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 “how much does it cost?” in Slovenian?
«koliko stane?» In a live sentence: “Koliko stane kava?” — How much does the coffee cost? You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level A0, from the set “shopping and money”.
Why does this word look the way it does?
One thing: koliko stane. Several: koliko stanejo. In a shop a bare koliko? is enough. 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.