заглавити се на аеродрому
“заглавити се на аеродрому” (zaglaviti se na aerodromu) — to get stuck at the airport in Serbian. Phrase, level B1. Zaglaviti se is to get stuck good and proper: in an elevator, in traffic, at the airport. About a jam people say zaglavili smo u guzvi. In a live sentence: “Заглавили смо се на аеродрому преко ноћи” — We got stuck at the airport overnight. You can hear how it sounds right here. A word from the everyday Serbian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Serbian | заглавити се на аеродрому |
| Read in Latin letters | zaglaviti se na aerodromu |
| Translation | to get stuck at the airport |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
- заглавити се на аеродромуzaglaviti se na aerodromuto get stuck at the airport
Why it looks that way
Zaglaviti se is to get stuck good and proper: in an elevator, in traffic, at the airport. About a jam people say zaglavili smo u guzvi.
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.
- Заглавили смо се на аеродрому преко ноћиZaglavili smo se na aerodromu preko noćiWe got stuck at the airport overnight
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 get stuck at the airport” in Serbian?
«заглавити се на аеродрому», read “zaglaviti se na aerodromu”. In a live sentence: “Заглавили смо се на аеродрому преко ноћи” — We got stuck at the airport overnight. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters з, а, г, л, а, в, и, т, и, с, е, н.
How is “заглавити се на аеродрому” written in Latin letters?
zaglaviti se na aerodromu. 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?
Zaglaviti se is to get stuck good and proper: in an elevator, in traffic, at the airport. About a jam people say zaglavili smo u guzvi. 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.