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- без записуbez zapysuwithout an appointment
“без запису” (bez zapysu) — without an appointment in Ukrainian. Phrase, level A1. After bez, without, the noun takes its of-form: bez zapysu. To sign up is zapysatysia — a self-directed verb, the -sia doing the job of -sia-verbs everywhere. In a live sentence: “Приймають і без запису” (Pryimaiut i bez zapysu) — We take walk-ins too, without an appointment. Written with the characters б (b), е, з (z), з (z), а (a), п, и, с, у (U). A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | без запису (bez zapysu) |
| Read in Latin letters | bez zapysu |
| Translation | without an appointment |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
After bez, without, the noun takes its of-form: bez zapysu. To sign up is zapysatysia — a self-directed verb, the -sia doing the job of -sia-verbs everywhere.
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.
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 “without an appointment” in Ukrainian?
«без запису» (bez zapysu), read “bez zapysu”. In a live sentence: “Приймають і без запису” (Pryimaiut i bez zapysu) — We take walk-ins too, without an appointment. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters б (b), е, з (z), з (z), а (a), п, и, с, у (U).
How is “без запису” (bez zapysu) written in Latin letters?
bez zapysu. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
After bez, without, the noun takes its of-form: bez zapysu. To sign up is zapysatysia — a self-directed verb, the -sia doing the job of -sia-verbs everywhere. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.