ђачка књижица
“ђачка књижица” (đačka knjižica) — a grade book in Serbian. Noun, level A2. Two tricky spots in a row: the soft dj, and nj in knjizica sounds like the ny of canyon. In a live sentence: “Наставница је уписала оцену у ђачку књижицу” — The teacher wrote the mark into the grade book. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters ђ, а, ч, к, а, к, њ, и, ж, и, ц, а.
In short
| Written in Serbian | ђачка књижица |
| Read in Latin letters | đačka knjižica |
| Translation | a grade book |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
- ђачка књижицаđačka knjižicaa grade book
How to pronounce it
Two tricky spots in a row: the soft dj, and nj in knjizica sounds like the ny of canyon.
Why it looks that way
Literally a pupil little book: a Serbian schoolkid carries a booklet with marks, not a diary. A personal diary is dnevnik.
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.
- Наставница је уписала оцену у ђачку књижицуNastavnica je upisala ocenu u đačku knjižicuThe teacher wrote the mark into the grade book
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 “a grade book” in Serbian?
«ђачка књижица», read “đačka knjižica”. Two tricky spots in a row: the soft dj, and nj in knjizica sounds like the ny of canyon. In a live sentence: “Наставница је уписала оцену у ђачку књижицу” — The teacher wrote the mark into the grade book. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A2; written with the characters ђ, а, ч, к, а, к, њ, и, ж, и, ц, а.
How is “ђачка књижица” written in Latin letters?
đačka knjižica. 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?
Literally a pupil little book: a Serbian schoolkid carries a booklet with marks, not a diary. A personal diary is dnevnik. 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.