Lingoflyболи ме грло
- боли ме грлоboli me grlomy throat hurts
“боли ме грло” (boli me grlo) — my throat hurts in Serbian. Phrase, level A2. Literally the throat hurts me: the person is the object, boli me. The short me comes second and cannot be moved. In a live sentence: “Боли ме грло кад гутам” (Boli me grlo kad gutam) — My throat hurts when I swallow. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters б, о (o), л, и (i), м, е, г, р, л, о (o).
In short
| Written in Serbian | боли ме грло (boli me grlo) |
| Read in Latin letters | boli me grlo |
| Translation | my throat hurts |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally the throat hurts me: the person is the object, boli me. The short me comes second and cannot be moved.
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.
- Боли ме грло кад гутамBoli me grlo kad gutamMy throat hurts when I swallow
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 “my throat hurts” in Serbian?
«боли ме грло» (boli me grlo), read “boli me grlo”. In a live sentence: “Боли ме грло кад гутам” (Boli me grlo kad gutam) — My throat hurts when I swallow. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters б, о (o), л, и (i), м, е, г, р, л, о (o).
How is “боли ме грло” (boli me grlo) written in Latin letters?
boli me grlo. 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 the throat hurts me: the person is the object, boli me. The short me comes second and cannot be moved. 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 this 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.