Lingoflyбезробітний
- безробітнийbezrobitnyiunemployed
“безробітний” (bezrobitnyi) — unemployed in Ukrainian. Adjective, level A2. Inside is "robota": bez-robitnyi, without work. The benefit is "dopomoha po bezrobittiu", and the labor office goes by "tsentr zainiatosti". In a live sentence: “Він безробітний уже пів року” (Vin bezrobitnyi uzhe piv roku) — He has been unemployed for a month now. Written with the characters б (b), е, з (z), р, о (o), б (b), і (i), т, н, и, й (y). A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | безробітний (bezrobitnyi) |
| Read in Latin letters | bezrobitnyi |
| Translation | unemployed |
| Part of speech | adjective |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Inside is "robota": bez-robitnyi, without work. The benefit is "dopomoha po bezrobittiu", and the labor office goes by "tsentr zainiatosti".
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 “unemployed” in Ukrainian?
«безробітний» (bezrobitnyi), read “bezrobitnyi”. In a live sentence: “Він безробітний уже пів року” (Vin bezrobitnyi uzhe piv roku) — He has been unemployed for a month now. Adjective, level A2; written with the characters б (b), е, з (z), р, о (o), б (b), і (i), т, н, и, й (y).
How is “безробітний” (bezrobitnyi) written in Latin letters?
bezrobitnyi. 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?
Inside is "robota": bez-robitnyi, without work. The benefit is "dopomoha po bezrobittiu", and the labor office goes by "tsentr zainiatosti". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.