Lingoflyподелити рачун
- поделити рачунpodeliti računto split the bill
“поделити рачун” (podeliti račun) — to split the bill in Serbian. Phrase, level B1. If everyone pays their own, they tell the waiter svako svoje; podeliti račun means evenly. In a live sentence: “Хајде да поделимо рачун на пола” (Hajde da podelimo račun na pola) — Let us split the bill in half. You can hear how it sounds right here.
In short
| Written in Serbian | поделити рачун (podeliti račun) |
| Read in Latin letters | podeliti račun |
| Translation | to split the bill |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
If everyone pays their own, they tell the waiter svako svoje; podeliti račun means evenly.
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 split the bill” in Serbian?
«поделити рачун» (podeliti račun), read “podeliti račun”. In a live sentence: “Хајде да поделимо рачун на пола” (Hajde da podelimo račun na pola) — Let us split the bill in half. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters п, о (o), д, е, л, и (i), т, и (i), р, а (a), ч, у (u)…
How is “поделити рачун” (podeliti račun) written in Latin letters?
podeliti račun. 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?
If everyone pays their own, they tell the waiter svako svoje; podeliti račun means evenly. 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.