понављати градиво
“понављати градиво” (ponavljati gradivo) — to review the material in Serbian. Phrase, level A2. The lj is the soft ly: po-na-lja-ti. In a live sentence: “Понављам градиво сваке вечери по сат времена” — I review the material every evening for an hour. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters п, о, н, а, в, љ, а, т, и, г, р, а. A word from the everyday Serbian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Serbian | понављати градиво |
| Read in Latin letters | ponavljati gradivo |
| Translation | to review the material |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
- понављати градивоponavljati gradivoto review the material
How to pronounce it
The lj is the soft ly: po-na-lja-ti.
Why it looks that way
Gradivo is school material, from graditi, to build: what knowledge is built from. Material as substance is materijal.
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.
- Понављам градиво сваке вечери по сат временаPonavljam gradivo svake večeri po sat vremenaI review the material every evening for an hour
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 review the material” in Serbian?
«понављати градиво», read “ponavljati gradivo”. The lj is the soft ly: po-na-lja-ti. In a live sentence: “Понављам градиво сваке вечери по сат времена” — I review the material every evening for an hour. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters п, о, н, а, в, љ, а, т, и, г, р, а.
How is “понављати градиво” written in Latin letters?
ponavljati gradivo. 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?
Gradivo is school material, from graditi, to build: what knowledge is built from. Material as substance is materijal. 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.