спадщина
“спадщина” — inheritance in Ukrainian. Noun, level B1. From spada ty, "to fall to one's lot after". The same word means cultural heritage: kulturna spadshch yna — on every guided tour. In a live sentence: “Спадщину оформляють пів року” — He received the house as an inheritance from his uncle. A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | спадщина |
| Translation | inheritance |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
From spada ty, "to fall to one's lot after". The same word means cultural heritage: kulturna spadshch yna — on every guided tour.
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.
- Спадщину оформляють пів рокуHe received the house as an inheritance from his uncle
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 “inheritance” in Ukrainian?
«спадщина». In a live sentence: “Спадщину оформляють пів року” — He received the house as an inheritance from his uncle. Noun, level B1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
From spada ty, "to fall to one's lot after". The same word means cultural heritage: kulturna spadshch yna — on every guided tour. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.