покажите на мапи
“покажите на мапи” (pokažite na mapi) — show it on the map in Serbian. Phrase, level A2. The word karta in Serbian is already taken by the ticket, so the city map is mapa or plan grada. The school geography map is geografska karta, the one place where the word came back. In a live sentence: “Покажите на мапи где смо сада” — Show it on the map where we are now. You can hear how it sounds right here.
In short
| Written in Serbian | покажите на мапи |
| Read in Latin letters | pokažite na mapi |
| Translation | show it on the map |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
- покажите на мапиpokažite na mapishow it on the map
Why it looks that way
The word karta in Serbian is already taken by the ticket, so the city map is mapa or plan grada. The school geography map is geografska karta, the one place where the word came back.
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.
- Покажите на мапи где смо садаPokažite na mapi gde smo sadaShow it on the map where we are now
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 “show it on the map” in Serbian?
«покажите на мапи», read “pokažite na mapi”. In a live sentence: “Покажите на мапи где смо сада” — Show it on the map where we are now. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters п, о, к, а, ж, и, т, е, н, а, м, а.
How is “покажите на мапи” written in Latin letters?
pokažite na mapi. 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 word karta in Serbian is already taken by the ticket, so the city map is mapa or plan grada. The school geography map is geografska karta, the one place where the word came back. 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.