отворити радни налог
“отворити радни налог” (otvoriti radni nalog) — to open a work order in Serbian. Phrase, level B1. At the service desk they say exactly this: radni nalog, a numbered work order. At an office instead: podneti zahtev. In a live sentence: “Отворићемо радни налог и јавићемо вам број” — We will open a work order and send you the number. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters о, т, в, о, р, и, т, и, р, а, д, н.
In short
| Written in Serbian | отворити радни налог |
| Read in Latin letters | otvoriti radni nalog |
| Translation | to open a work order |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
- отворити радни налогotvoriti radni nalogto open a work order
Why it looks that way
At the service desk they say exactly this: radni nalog, a numbered work order. At an office instead: podneti zahtev.
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.
- Отворићемо радни налог и јавићемо вам бројOtvorićemo radni nalog i javićemo vam brojWe will open a work order and send you the number
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 “to open a work order” in Serbian?
«отворити радни налог», read “otvoriti radni nalog”. In a live sentence: “Отворићемо радни налог и јавићемо вам број” — We will open a work order and send you the number. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters о, т, в, о, р, и, т, и, р, а, д, н.
How is “отворити радни налог” written in Latin letters?
otvoriti radni nalog. 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?
At the service desk they say exactly this: radni nalog, a numbered work order. At an office instead: podneti zahtev. 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.