страховка
“страховка” — insurance in Ukrainian. Noun, level A2. In official papers it dresses up as strakhuvannia, and the insurer is strakhova. The root is strakh, fear — turned into paperwork. In a live sentence: “Чи діє тут моя страховка?” — Is my insurance valid here? A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | страховка |
| Translation | insurance |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
In official papers it dresses up as strakhuvannia, and the insurer is strakhova. The root is strakh, fear — turned into paperwork.
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.
- Чи діє тут моя страховка?Is my insurance valid here?
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 “insurance” in Ukrainian?
«страховка». In a live sentence: “Чи діє тут моя страховка?” — Is my insurance valid here? Noun, level A2.
Why does this word look the way it does?
In official papers it dresses up as strakhuvannia, and the insurer is strakhova. The root is strakh, fear — turned into paperwork. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.