камера на телефону
“камера на телефону” (kamera na telefonu) — phone camera in Serbian. Noun, level A1. Belonging here goes through na with the locative, not the genitive: kamera na telefonu. In a live sentence: “Камера на телефону слика одлично” — The phone camera shoots beautifully. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters к, а, м, е, р, а, н, а, т, е, л, е. A word from the everyday Serbian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Serbian | камера на телефону |
| Read in Latin letters | kamera na telefonu |
| Translation | phone camera |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
- камера на телефонуkamera na telefonuphone camera
Why it looks that way
Belonging here goes through na with the locative, not the genitive: kamera na telefonu.
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.
- Камера на телефону слика одличноKamera na telefonu slika odličnoThe phone camera shoots beautifully
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 “phone camera” in Serbian?
«камера на телефону», read “kamera na telefonu”. In a live sentence: “Камера на телефону слика одлично” — The phone camera shoots beautifully. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A1; written with the characters к, а, м, е, р, а, н, а, т, е, л, е.
How is “камера на телефону” written in Latin letters?
kamera na telefonu. 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?
Belonging here goes through na with the locative, not the genitive: kamera na telefonu. 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.