певачица
“певачица” (pevačica) — female singer in Serbian. Noun, level A1. The man is pevac, the woman pevacica: before -ica the ch of pevati stays hard. In a live sentence: “Она је позната певачица” — She is a famous female singer. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters п, е, в, а, ч, и, ц, а. A word from the everyday Serbian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Serbian | певачица |
| Read in Latin letters | pevačica |
| Translation | female singer |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
- певачицаpevačicafemale singer
Why it looks that way
The man is pevac, the woman pevacica: before -ica the ch of pevati stays hard.
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.
- Она је позната певачицаOna je poznata pevačicaShe is a famous female singer
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 “female singer” in Serbian?
«певачица», read “pevačica”. In a live sentence: “Она је позната певачица” — She is a famous female singer. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A1; written with the characters п, е, в, а, ч, и, ц, а.
How is “певачица” written in Latin letters?
pevačica. 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 man is pevac, the woman pevacica: before -ica the ch of pevati stays hard. 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.