відмова у візі
“відмова у візі” — visa refusal in Ukrainian. Noun, level B1. Built with "u" plus the "where" form — refusal in what, not of what. Against a refusal you can file a complaint: "podaty skarhu". In a live sentence: “Відмова у візі прийшла без пояснень” — A visa refusal is not the end of the story. A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | відмова у візі |
| Translation | visa refusal |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Built with "u" plus the "where" form — refusal in what, not of what. Against a refusal you can file a complaint: "podaty skarhu".
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.
- Відмова у візі прийшла без поясненьA visa refusal is not the end of the story
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 “visa refusal” in Ukrainian?
«відмова у візі». In a live sentence: “Відмова у візі прийшла без пояснень” — A visa refusal is not the end of the story. Noun, level B1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Built with "u" plus the "where" form — refusal in what, not of what. Against a refusal you can file a complaint: "podaty skarhu". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.