Lingoflyболить голова
- болить головаbolyt holovamy head hurts
“болить голова” (bolyt holova) — my head hurts in Ukrainian. Phrase, level A1. The short form of the full phrase; either one works. The stock advice you will get back is "take a tablet". In a live sentence: “У мене від шуму болить голова” (U mene vid shumu bolyt holova) — My head hurts, I am staying home today. Written with the characters б (b), о (o), л, и, т, ь, г, о (o), л, о (o), в (v), а (a). A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | болить голова (bolyt holova) |
| Read in Latin letters | bolyt holova |
| Translation | my head hurts |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The short form of the full phrase; either one works. The stock advice you will get back is "take a tablet".
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.
- У мене від шуму болить головаU mene vid shumu bolyt holovaMy head hurts, I am staying home today
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 “my head hurts” in Ukrainian?
«болить голова» (bolyt holova), read “bolyt holova”. In a live sentence: “У мене від шуму болить голова” (U mene vid shumu bolyt holova) — My head hurts, I am staying home today. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters б (b), о (o), л, и, т, ь, г, о (o), л, о (o), в (v), а (a).
How is “болить голова” (bolyt holova) written in Latin letters?
bolyt holova. 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?
The short form of the full phrase; either one works. The stock advice you will get back is "take a tablet". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.