vrtnar
“vrtnar” — gardener in Slovenian. Noun, level B1. No vowel between v and r — the r holds the syllable: vuhrtn-AHR. In a live sentence: “Vrtnar je obrezal grmovje pred hišo” — The gardener trimmed the bushes in front of the house. You can hear how it sounds right here. A word from the everyday Slovenian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Slovenian | vrtnar |
| Translation | gardener |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
- vrtnargardener
How to pronounce it
No vowel between v and r — the r holds the syllable: vuhrtn-AHR
Why it looks that way
from vrt, a garden and a vegetable patch at once; gardening is vrtnarstvo, and vrtnarija is also a garden centre where you buy seedlings
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.
- Vrtnar je obrezal grmovje pred hišoThe gardener trimmed the bushes in front of the house
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 “gardener” in Slovenian?
«vrtnar». No vowel between v and r — the r holds the syllable: vuhrtn-AHR. In a live sentence: “Vrtnar je obrezal grmovje pred hišo” — The gardener trimmed the bushes in front of the house. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level B1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
from vrt, a garden and a vegetable patch at once; gardening is vrtnarstvo, and vrtnarija is also a garden centre where you buy seedlings. 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.