једнокреветна соба
“једнокреветна соба” (jednokrevetna soba) — a single room in Serbian. Noun, level A2. Literally a one-bed room: Serbian counts rooms in beds, not people. Soba is both a room in a flat and a hotel room. In a live sentence: “Резервисао сам једнокреветну собу на три ноћи” — I booked a single room for three nights. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters ј, е, д, н, о, к, р, е, в, е, т, н.
In short
| Written in Serbian | једнокреветна соба |
| Read in Latin letters | jednokrevetna soba |
| Translation | a single room |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
- једнокреветна собаjednokrevetna sobaa single room
Why it looks that way
Literally a one-bed room: Serbian counts rooms in beds, not people. Soba is both a room in a flat and a hotel room.
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.
- Резервисао сам једнокреветну собу на три ноћиRezervisao sam jednokrevetnu sobu na tri noćiI booked a single room for three nights
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 single room” in Serbian?
«једнокреветна соба», read “jednokrevetna soba”. In a live sentence: “Резервисао сам једнокреветну собу на три ноћи” — I booked a single room for three nights. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A2; written with the characters ј, е, д, н, о, к, р, е, в, е, т, н.
How is “једнокреветна соба” written in Latin letters?
jednokrevetna soba. 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 one-bed room: Serbian counts rooms in beds, not people. Soba is both a room in a flat and a hotel room. 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.