Може још воде?
“Може још воде?” (Može još vode?) — more water, please in Serbian. Phrase, level A1. After jos the noun goes into the of-form: vode, hleba, kafe — "some more water, bread, coffee". The case is the whole grammar here. In a live sentence: “Може још воде, молим?” — Could I have some more water, please? You can hear how it sounds right here. Written with the characters М, о, ж, е, ј, о, ш, в, о, д, е.
In short
| Written in Serbian | Може још воде? |
| Read in Latin letters | Može još vode? |
| Translation | more water, please |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
- Може још воде?Može još vode?more water, please
Why it looks that way
After jos the noun goes into the of-form: vode, hleba, kafe — "some more water, bread, coffee". The case is the whole grammar here.
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.
- Може још воде, молим?Može još vode molimCould I have some more water, please?
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 “more water, please” in Serbian?
«Може још воде?», read “Može još vode?”. In a live sentence: “Може још воде, молим?” — Could I have some more water, please? You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters М, о, ж, е, ј, о, ш, в, о, д, е.
How is “Може још воде?” written in Latin letters?
Može još vode?. 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 jos the noun goes into the of-form: vode, hleba, kafe — "some more water, bread, coffee". The case is the whole grammar here. 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.