весло
“весло” — oar in Ukrainian. Noun, level B1. You row with vesla, "with oars", and the plural is regular. An easy one: it sounds almost exactly like what it is. In a live sentence: “Одне весло зламалося” — An oar fell into the water. A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | весло |
| Translation | oar |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
You row with vesla, "with oars", and the plural is regular. An easy one: it sounds almost exactly like what it is.
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.
- Одне весло зламалосяAn oar fell into the water
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 “oar” in Ukrainian?
«весло». In a live sentence: “Одне весло зламалося” — An oar fell into the water. Noun, level B1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
You row with vesla, "with oars", and the plural is regular. An easy one: it sounds almost exactly like what it is. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.