дозволите да додам
“дозволите да додам” (dozvolite da dodam) — allow me to add in Serbian. Phrase, level B1. Dozvoliti is to allow; dozvola the permission, and the driving license comes from it too. Dodati is to add, the same word as in the recipe. In a live sentence: “Дозволите да додам још једну ствар” — Allow me to add one more thing. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters д, о, з, в, о, л, и, т, е, д, а, д.
In short
| Written in Serbian | дозволите да додам |
| Read in Latin letters | dozvolite da dodam |
| Translation | allow me to add |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
- дозволите да додамdozvolite da dodamallow me to add
Why it looks that way
Dozvoliti is to allow; dozvola the permission, and the driving license comes from it too. Dodati is to add, the same word as in the recipe.
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.
- Дозволите да додам још једну стварDozvolite da dodam još jednu stvarAllow me to add one more thing
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 “allow me to add” in Serbian?
«дозволите да додам», read “dozvolite da dodam”. In a live sentence: “Дозволите да додам још једну ствар” — Allow me to add one more thing. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters д, о, з, в, о, л, и, т, е, д, а, д.
How is “дозволите да додам” written in Latin letters?
dozvolite da dodam. 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?
Dozvoliti is to allow; dozvola the permission, and the driving license comes from it too. Dodati is to add, the same word as in the recipe. 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.