џамија
“џамија” (džamija) — a mosque in Serbian. Noun, level A2. The letter dz is a firm j as in jam, not a soft dy: dza-mi-ja. In a live sentence: “Џамија у центру је стара четири века” — The mosques in the center are four hundred years old. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters џ, а, м, и, ј, а. A word from the everyday Serbian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Serbian | џамија |
| Read in Latin letters | džamija |
| Translation | a mosque |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
- џамијаdžamijaa mosque
How to pronounce it
The letter dz is a firm j as in jam, not a soft dy: dza-mi-ja.
Why it looks that way
Mosques in Serbia stand in Belgrade and in the south. An Orthodox church is crkva, a Catholic one katedrala.
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.
- Џамија у центру је стара четири векаDžamija u centru je stara četiri vekaThe mosques in the center are four hundred years old
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 mosque” in Serbian?
«џамија», read “džamija”. The letter dz is a firm j as in jam, not a soft dy: dza-mi-ja. In a live sentence: “Џамија у центру је стара четири века” — The mosques in the center are four hundred years old. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A2; written with the characters џ, а, м, и, ј, а.
How is “џамија” written in Latin letters?
džamija. 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?
Mosques in Serbia stand in Belgrade and in the south. An Orthodox church is crkva, a Catholic one katedrala. 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.