Lingoflyболить спина
- болить спинаbolyt spynamy back hurts
“болить спина” (bolyt spyna) — my back hurts in Ukrainian. Phrase, level A2. The pain is introduced with "to me": Meni bolyt spyna, literally "to me hurts the back". If both legs hurt, the verb goes plural: boliat nohy — the body part is the subject. In a live sentence: “До вечора болить спина” (Do vechora bolyt spyna) — My back hurts when I sit for a long time. Written with the characters б (b), о (o), л, и, т, ь, с, п, и, н, а (a).
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | болить спина (bolyt spyna) |
| Read in Latin letters | bolyt spyna |
| Translation | my back hurts |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
The pain is introduced with "to me": Meni bolyt spyna, literally "to me hurts the back". If both legs hurt, the verb goes plural: boliat nohy — the body part is the subject.
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.
- До вечора болить спинаDo vechora bolyt spynaMy back hurts when I sit for a long time
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 back hurts” in Ukrainian?
«болить спина» (bolyt spyna), read “bolyt spyna”. In a live sentence: “До вечора болить спина” (Do vechora bolyt spyna) — My back hurts when I sit for a long time. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters б (b), о (o), л, и, т, ь, с, п, и, н, а (a).
How is “болить спина” (bolyt spyna) written in Latin letters?
bolyt spyna. 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 pain is introduced with "to me": Meni bolyt spyna, literally "to me hurts the back". If both legs hurt, the verb goes plural: boliat nohy — the body part is the subject. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.