карта у једном правцу
“карта у једном правцу” (karta u jednom pravcu) — one-way ticket in Serbian. Noun, level A2. Pravac is the direction; pravo from unit four is "straight" — the same root. In a live sentence: “Молим карту у једном правцу до Ниша” — A one-way ticket to Nis, please. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters к, а, р, т, а, у, ј, е, д, н, о, м. A word from the everyday Serbian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Serbian | карта у једном правцу |
| Read in Latin letters | karta u jednom pravcu |
| Translation | one-way ticket |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
- карта у једном правцуkarta u jednom pravcuone-way ticket
Why it looks that way
Pravac is the direction; pravo from unit four is "straight" — the same root.
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.
- Молим карту у једном правцу до НишаMolim kartu u jednom pravcu do NišaA one-way ticket to Nis, please
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 “one-way ticket” in Serbian?
«карта у једном правцу», read “karta u jednom pravcu”. In a live sentence: “Молим карту у једном правцу до Ниша” — A one-way ticket to Nis, please. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A2; written with the characters к, а, р, т, а, у, ј, е, д, н, о, м.
How is “карта у једном правцу” written in Latin letters?
karta u jednom pravcu. 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?
Pravac is the direction; pravo from unit four is "straight" — the same root. 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.