робоче місце
“робоче місце” — workplace in Ukrainian. Noun, level A2. Word for word "working place". It names both the desk-and-chair and the open position: vilnykh robochykh mists nema — "no jobs open". In a live sentence: “Робоче місце біля вікна вільне” — Every employee has their own workplace by the window. A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | робоче місце |
| Translation | workplace |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Word for word "working place". It names both the desk-and-chair and the open position: vilnykh robochykh mists nema — "no jobs open".
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.
- Робоче місце біля вікна вільнеEvery employee has their own workplace by the window
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 “workplace” in Ukrainian?
«робоче місце». In a live sentence: “Робоче місце біля вікна вільне” — Every employee has their own workplace by the window. Noun, level A2.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Word for word "working place". It names both the desk-and-chair and the open position: vilnykh robochykh mists nema — "no jobs open". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.