Lingoflyкишна сезона
- кишна сезонаkišna sezonarainy season
“кишна сезона” (kišna sezona) — rainy season in Serbian. Noun, level A2. Kišna is the adjective from kiša. In Serbia it is more about November than about the tropics. In a live sentence: “Кишна сезона траје цео новембар” (Kišna sezona traje ceo novembar) — The rainy season lasts the whole of November. You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters к, и (i), ш, н, а (a), с (s), е, з, о (o), н, а (a). A word from the everyday Serbian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Serbian | кишна сезона (kišna sezona) |
| Read in Latin letters | kišna sezona |
| Translation | rainy season |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Kišna is the adjective from kiša. In Serbia it is more about November than about the tropics.
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 “rainy season” in Serbian?
«кишна сезона» (kišna sezona), read “kišna sezona”. In a live sentence: “Кишна сезона траје цео новембар” (Kišna sezona traje ceo novembar) — The rainy season lasts the whole of November. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level A2; written with the characters к, и (i), ш, н, а (a), с (s), е, з, о (o), н, а (a).
How is “кишна сезона” (kišna sezona) written in Latin letters?
kišna sezona. 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?
Kišna is the adjective from kiša. In Serbia it is more about November than about the tropics. 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.