prijava prebivališča
“prijava prebivališča” — residence registration in Slovenian. Noun, level B1. š = sh, č = ch: pree-YAH-vah preh-bee-VAH-leesh-chah. In a live sentence: “Prijavo prebivališča morate urediti v osmih dneh” — The residence registration must be done within eight days. You can hear how it sounds right here. A word from the everyday Slovenian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Slovenian | prijava prebivališča |
| Translation | residence registration |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
- prijava prebivališčaresidence registration
How to pronounce it
š = sh, č = ch: pree-YAH-vah preh-bee-VAH-leesh-chah
Why it looks that way
done at the upravna enota within eight days of moving — a duty, not a formality; prebivališče is a place of living: stalno permanent, začasno temporary; the same root as prebivalec, a resident
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.
- Prijavo prebivališča morate urediti v osmih dnehThe residence registration must be done within eight days
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 “residence registration” in Slovenian?
«prijava prebivališča». š = sh, č = ch: pree-YAH-vah preh-bee-VAH-leesh-chah. In a live sentence: “Prijavo prebivališča morate urediti v osmih dneh” — The residence registration must be done within eight days. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level B1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
done at the upravna enota within eight days of moving — a duty, not a formality; prebivališče is a place of living: stalno permanent, začasno temporary; the same root as prebivalec, a resident. 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?
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