Describing form in Slovene
Form in landscape
To describe architectural form you need a precise vocabulary. There are a range of basic words for describing form and for many abstract words, there are dualities or pairs of opposites which may be useful when describing form too.
In these activities you are going to review terms in Slovene for describing basic forms and explore some useful pairs of more abstract words.
Activity 1: Reviewing Slovene words to describe basic forms
There are some some basic shapes and forms frequently referred to in architecture. In this activity you are going to review the terms used to describe these in Slovene.
Instruction
Look at these images of architectural forms and match each of them with an appropriate word in Slovene. Drag and drop each word onto the image it describes. Then read the feedback.
Activity 2: Opposites and dualities
In this activity you are going to explore the meanings of some more abstract words for describing forms.
Instruction
Study these opposites and dualities relating to form, looking first at the English ones and then at the Slovene ones. Arrange them into pairs by dragging and dropping each item from the bottom row under its corresponding or opposite in the top row. Then read the feedback.
Opposites/Dualities
Go to these links to see a full list of words for describing basic architectural terms in English, Slovene and two other languages, or Slovene terms with audio recordings:
Basic architectural terms describing form
Architectural terms with audio
© Archi21 Project Consortium: Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris-Malaquais, Open University, University of Ljubljana, Aalborg Universitet, University of Southampton and eLanguages, Modern Languages and Linguistics, University of Southampton, 2012. Images courtesy of mytimemachine, Christopher Chan, Nomad Tales, Daves Portfolio, Tim van Kempen, Al_HikesAZ, Crouchy69, Anders Thirsgaard Rasmussen, and jcbonbon (Flickr).
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