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- конкурисати за посаоkonkurisati za posaoto apply for a job
“конкурисати за посао” (konkurisati za posao) — to apply for a job in Serbian. Phrase, level B1. Literally to compete for the job: a Serb does not respond, they enter the contest. Javiti se na oglas says the same more simply. In a live sentence: “Конкурисао сам за посао у три фирме” (Konkurisao sam za posao u tri firme) — I applied for openings at three companies. You can hear how it sounds right here.
In short
| Written in Serbian | конкурисати за посао (konkurisati za posao) |
| Read in Latin letters | konkurisati za posao |
| Translation | to apply for a job |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally to compete for the job: a Serb does not respond, they enter the contest. Javiti se na oglas says the same more simply.
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 “to apply for a job” in Serbian?
«конкурисати за посао» (konkurisati za posao), read “konkurisati za posao”. In a live sentence: “Конкурисао сам за посао у три фирме” (Konkurisao sam za posao u tri firme) — I applied for openings at three companies. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters к, о (o), н, к, у (u), р, и (i), с (s), а (a), т, и (i), з…
How is “конкурисати за посао” (konkurisati za posao) written in Latin letters?
konkurisati za posao. 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 to compete for the job: a Serb does not respond, they enter the contest. Javiti se na oglas says the same more simply. 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.