lastno podjetje
“lastno podjetje” — own business in Slovenian. Noun, level B1. tj said apart, not merged: POH-dyeh-tyeh. In a live sentence: “Odprla je lastno podjetje” — She opened her own business. You can hear how it sounds right here. A word from the everyday Slovenian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Slovenian | lastno podjetje |
| Translation | own business |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
- lastno podjetjeown business
How to pronounce it
tj said apart, not merged: POH-dyeh-tyeh
Why it looks that way
podjetje is an enterprise, from podjeti se, to set about; the entrepreneur is podjetnik, self-employed samostojni podjetnik, shortened to s. p. — heard constantly
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.
- Odprla je lastno podjetjeShe opened her own business
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 “own business” in Slovenian?
«lastno podjetje». tj said apart, not merged: POH-dyeh-tyeh. In a live sentence: “Odprla je lastno podjetje” — She opened her own business. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level B1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
podjetje is an enterprise, from podjeti se, to set about; the entrepreneur is podjetnik, self-employed samostojni podjetnik, shortened to s. p. — heard constantly. 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.