васпитавати децу
“васпитавати децу” (vaspitavati decu) — to bring up children in Serbian. Phrase, level B1. Vaspitavati is to bring up, odgajati to raise. Deca is a collective feminine singular, and its accusative is decu. In a live sentence: “Тешко је васпитавати децу без помоћи” — It is hard to bring up children without help. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters в, а, с, п, и, т, а, в, а, т, и, д.
In short
| Written in Serbian | васпитавати децу |
| Read in Latin letters | vaspitavati decu |
| Translation | to bring up children |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
- васпитавати децуvaspitavati decuto bring up children
Why it looks that way
Vaspitavati is to bring up, odgajati to raise. Deca is a collective feminine singular, and its accusative is decu.
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.
- Тешко је васпитавати децу без помоћиTeško je vaspitavati decu bez pomoćiIt is hard to bring up children without help
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 bring up children” in Serbian?
«васпитавати децу», read “vaspitavati decu”. In a live sentence: “Тешко је васпитавати децу без помоћи” — It is hard to bring up children without help. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters в, а, с, п, и, т, а, в, а, т, и, д.
How is “васпитавати децу” written in Latin letters?
vaspitavati decu. 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?
Vaspitavati is to bring up, odgajati to raise. Deca is a collective feminine singular, and its accusative is decu. 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.