а шта ти мислиш?
“а шта ти мислиш?” (a šta ti misliš?) — what do you think? in Serbian. Phrase, level B1. The order is rigid: question word first, pronoun right behind it. Politer: a sta vi mislite? A trap: sta is what, and sto is because and which. In a live sentence: “Ја бих остао, а шта ти мислиш?” — I would stay, and what do you think? You can hear how it sounds right here. A word from the everyday Serbian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Serbian | а шта ти мислиш? |
| Read in Latin letters | a šta ti misliš? |
| Translation | what do you think? |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
- а шта ти мислиш?a šta ti misliš?what do you think?
Why it looks that way
The order is rigid: question word first, pronoun right behind it. Politer: a sta vi mislite? A trap: sta is what, and sto is because and which.
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.
- Ја бих остао, а шта ти мислиш?Ja bih ostao, a šta ti misliš?I would stay, and what do you think?
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 “what do you think?” in Serbian?
«а шта ти мислиш?», read “a šta ti misliš?”. In a live sentence: “Ја бих остао, а шта ти мислиш?” — I would stay, and what do you think? You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters а, ш, т, а, т, и, м, и, с, л, и, ш.
How is “а шта ти мислиш?” written in Latin letters?
a šta ti misliš?. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
The order is rigid: question word first, pronoun right behind it. Politer: a sta vi mislite? A trap: sta is what, and sto is because and which. 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.