епідемія
“епідемія” — epidemic in Ukrainian. Noun, level B1. The Greek root you know from English. The worldwide kind is pandemiia; an outbreak is spalakh, as in spalakh hrypu; quarantine is karantyn, an easy international guest. In a live sentence: “Епідемія пішла на спад” — During the epidemic the schools were closed. A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | епідемія |
| Translation | epidemic |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
The Greek root you know from English. The worldwide kind is pandemiia; an outbreak is spalakh, as in spalakh hrypu; quarantine is karantyn, an easy international guest.
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.
- Епідемія пішла на спадDuring the epidemic the schools were closed
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 “epidemic” in Ukrainian?
«епідемія». In a live sentence: “Епідемія пішла на спад” — During the epidemic the schools were closed. Noun, level B1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
The Greek root you know from English. The worldwide kind is pandemiia; an outbreak is spalakh, as in spalakh hrypu; quarantine is karantyn, an easy international guest. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.