живіт
“живіт” — belly in Ukrainian. Noun, level A1. Written with an i, said like the word for "lives". In old texts this root meant "life" itself — the belly as the living place. In a live sentence: “Болить живіт після обіду” — Arms, legs, head and belly. A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | живіт |
| Translation | belly |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Written with an i, said like the word for "lives". In old texts this root meant "life" itself — the belly as the living place.
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.
- Болить живіт після обідуArms, legs, head and belly
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 “belly” in Ukrainian?
«живіт». In a live sentence: “Болить живіт після обіду” — Arms, legs, head and belly. Noun, level A1.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Written with an i, said like the word for "lives". In old texts this root meant "life" itself — the belly as the living place. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.