група туриста
“група туриста” (grupa turista) — a tour group in Serbian. Noun, level A2. The genitive plural of turista looks like the nominative singular: grupa turista, deset turista. It is confusing but the form is right. In a live sentence: “Група туриста чека испред музеја” — A tour group is waiting in front of the museum. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters г, р, у, п, а, т, у, р, и, с, т, а.
In short
| Written in Serbian | група туриста |
| Read in Latin letters | grupa turista |
| Translation | a tour group |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
- група туристаgrupa turistaa tour group
Why it looks that way
The genitive plural of turista looks like the nominative singular: grupa turista, deset turista. It is confusing but the form is right.
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.
- Група туриста чека испред музејаGrupa turista čeka ispred muzejaA tour group is waiting in front of the museum
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 tour group” in Serbian?
«група туриста», read “grupa turista”. In a live sentence: “Група туриста чека испред музеја” — A tour group is waiting in front of the museum. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A2; written with the characters г, р, у, п, а, т, у, р, и, с, т, а.
How is “група туриста” written in Latin letters?
grupa turista. 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 genitive plural of turista looks like the nominative singular: grupa turista, deset turista. It is confusing but the form is right. 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.