заштита на раду
“заштита на раду” (zaštita na radu) — job safety in Serbian. Noun, level B1. Literally protection at work; there is no phrase like safety engineering in Serbian. The briefing is called obuka iz zastite na radu. In a live sentence: “Заштита на раду се учи пре првог дана” — Job safety is taught before the first day. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters з, а, ш, т, и, т, а, н, а, р, а, д.
In short
| Written in Serbian | заштита на раду |
| Read in Latin letters | zaštita na radu |
| Translation | job safety |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
- заштита на радуzaštita na radujob safety
Why it looks that way
Literally protection at work; there is no phrase like safety engineering in Serbian. The briefing is called obuka iz zastite na radu.
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.
- Заштита на раду се учи пре првог данаZaštita na radu se uči pre prvog danaJob safety is taught before the first day
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 “job safety” in Serbian?
«заштита на раду», read “zaštita na radu”. In a live sentence: “Заштита на раду се учи пре првог дана” — Job safety is taught before the first day. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level B1; written with the characters з, а, ш, т, и, т, а, н, а, р, а, д.
How is “заштита на раду” written in Latin letters?
zaštita na radu. 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?
Literally protection at work; there is no phrase like safety engineering in Serbian. The briefing is called obuka iz zastite na radu. 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.