Lingoflyчистач улица
- чистач улицаčistač ulicastreet sweeper
“чистач улица” (čistač ulica) — street sweeper in Serbian. Noun, level A1. A look-alike: brisači are the windshield wipers; the one who sweeps the street is the čistač ulica. In a live sentence: “Чистач улица ради рано ујутру” (Čistač ulica radi rano ujutru) — The street sweeper starts work early in the morning. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters ч, и (i), с (s), т, а (a), ч, у (u), л, и (i), ц, а (a).
In short
| Written in Serbian | чистач улица (čistač ulica) |
| Read in Latin letters | čistač ulica |
| Translation | street sweeper |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
A look-alike: brisači are the windshield wipers; the one who sweeps the street is the čistač ulica.
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.
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 “street sweeper” in Serbian?
«чистач улица» (čistač ulica), read “čistač ulica”. In a live sentence: “Чистач улица ради рано ујутру” (Čistač ulica radi rano ujutru) — The street sweeper starts work early in the morning. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A1; written with the characters ч, и (i), с (s), т, а (a), ч, у (u), л, и (i), ц, а (a).
How is “чистач улица” (čistač ulica) written in Latin letters?
čistač ulica. 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?
A look-alike: brisači are the windshield wipers; the one who sweeps the street is the čistač ulica. 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.