рок испоруке
“рок испоруке” (rok isporuke) — the delivery time in Serbian. Noun, level B1. Isporuka is the dispatch from the warehouse, dostava the delivery to the door. In a contract the term is rok. In a live sentence: “Рок испоруке је пет радних дана” — The delivery time is five working days. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters р, о, к, и, с, п, о, р, у, к, е. A word from the everyday Serbian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Serbian | рок испоруке |
| Read in Latin letters | rok isporuke |
| Translation | the delivery time |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
- рок испорукеrok isporukethe delivery time
Why it looks that way
Isporuka is the dispatch from the warehouse, dostava the delivery to the door. In a contract the term is rok.
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.
- Рок испоруке је пет радних данаRok isporuke je pet radnih danaThe delivery time is five working days
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 “the delivery time” in Serbian?
«рок испоруке», read “rok isporuke”. In a live sentence: “Рок испоруке је пет радних дана” — The delivery time is five working days. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level B1; written with the characters р, о, к, и, с, п, о, р, у, к, е.
How is “рок испоруке” written in Latin letters?
rok isporuke. 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?
Isporuka is the dispatch from the warehouse, dostava the delivery to the door. In a contract the term is rok. 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.