каблучка
“каблучка” — ring (jewelry) in Ukrainian. Noun, level A1. A trap for the eye: this is not the shoe word — here kab luchka is a ring. The wedding one is obruchalna kab luchka, a betrothal ring. In a live sentence: “Каблучка їй завелика” — This is a wedding ring. A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | каблучка |
| Translation | ring (jewelry) |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
A trap for the eye: this is not the shoe word — here kab luchka is a ring. The wedding one is obruchalna kab luchka, a betrothal ring.
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.
- Каблучка їй завеликаThis is a wedding ring
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 “ring (jewelry)” in Ukrainian?
«каблучка». In a live sentence: “Каблучка їй завелика” — This is a wedding ring. Noun, level A1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
A trap for the eye: this is not the shoe word — here kab luchka is a ring. The wedding one is obruchalna kab luchka, a betrothal ring. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.