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- минимална платаminimalna platathe minimum wage
“минимална плата” (minimalna plata) — the minimum wage in Serbian. Noun, level B1. Plata is the salary, not a payment for something. The living minimum is minimalna potrošačka korpa. In a live sentence: “Минимална плата је порасла од јануара” (Minimalna plata je porasla od januara) — The minimum wage went up in January. You can hear how it sounds right here.
In short
| Written in Serbian | минимална плата (minimalna plata) |
| Read in Latin letters | minimalna plata |
| Translation | the minimum wage |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Plata is the salary, not a payment for something. The living minimum is minimalna potrošačka korpa.
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.
- Минимална плата је порасла од јануараMinimalna plata je porasla od januaraThe minimum wage went up in January
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 “the minimum wage” in Serbian?
«минимална плата» (minimalna plata), read “minimalna plata”. In a live sentence: “Минимална плата је порасла од јануара” (Minimalna plata je porasla od januara) — The minimum wage went up in January. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Noun, level B1; written with the characters м, и (i), н, и (i), м, а (a), л, н, а (a), п, л, а (a)…
How is “минимална плата” (minimalna plata) written in Latin letters?
minimalna plata. 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?
Plata is the salary, not a payment for something. The living minimum is minimalna potrošačka korpa. 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.