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- има довољно новцаima dovoljno novcathere is enough money
“има довољно новца” (ima dovoljno novca) — there is enough money in Serbian. Phrase, level A2. The lj in dovoljno is the soft ly: do-vo-ljno. In a live sentence: “Има довољно новца за карте и вечеру” (Ima dovoljno novca za karte i večeru) — There is enough money for tickets and dinner. You can hear how it sounds right here.
In short
| Written in Serbian | има довољно новца (ima dovoljno novca) |
| Read in Latin letters | ima dovoljno novca |
| Translation | there is enough money |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
How to pronounce it
The lj in dovoljno is the soft ly: do-vo-ljno.
Why it looks that way
After dovoljno always the of-form: novca, not novac. For who has enough, just use the verb ending: imam dovoljno novca, I have enough money.
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 “there is enough money” in Serbian?
«има довољно новца» (ima dovoljno novca), read “ima dovoljno novca”. The lj in dovoljno is the soft ly: do-vo-ljno. In a live sentence: “Има довољно новца за карте и вечеру” (Ima dovoljno novca za karte i večeru) — There is enough money for tickets and dinner. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters и (i), м, а (a), д, о (o), в, о (o), љ, н, о (o), н, о (o)…
How is “има довољно новца” (ima dovoljno novca) written in Latin letters?
ima dovoljno novca. 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?
After dovoljno always the of-form: novca, not novac. For who has enough, just use the verb ending: imam dovoljno novca, I have enough money. 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.