peš kakih deset minut
“peš kakih deset minut” — about ten minutes on foot in Slovenian. Phrase, level B1. Š is "sh" as in "ship": pehsh-KAH-keeh-DEH-seht-mee-NOOT. In a live sentence: “Do postaje je peš kakih deset minut” — The station is about ten minutes on foot. You can hear how it sounds right here. A word from the everyday Slovenian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Slovenian | peš kakih deset minut |
| Translation | about ten minutes on foot |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
- peš kakih deset minutabout ten minutes on foot
How to pronounce it
Š is "sh" as in "ship": pehsh-KAH-keeh-DEH-seht-mee-NOOT
Why it looks that way
the word kakih before the number does what English about does; peš never changes: grem peš, hodim peš
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.
- Do postaje je peš kakih deset minutThe station is about ten minutes on foot
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 “about ten minutes on foot” in Slovenian?
«peš kakih deset minut». Š is "sh" as in "ship": pehsh-KAH-keeh-DEH-seht-mee-NOOT. In a live sentence: “Do postaje je peš kakih deset minut” — The station is about ten minutes on foot. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level B1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
the word kakih before the number does what English about does; peš never changes: grem peš, hodim peš. 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.