Lingoflyдавні руїни
- давні руїниdavni ruinyancient ruins
“давні руїни” (davni ruiny) — ancient ruins in Ukrainian. Phrase, level B1. Ruiny comes only in the plural, like English "ruins". A castle in ruins is zamok u ruinakh. Watch the spelling: no soft sign inside the word. In a live sentence: “За селом лежать давні руїни” (Za selom lezhat davni ruiny) — Ancient ruins of a castle stand above the village. Written with the characters д, а (a), в (v), н, і (i), р, у (U), ї (yi), н, и. A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | давні руїни (davni ruiny) |
| Read in Latin letters | davni ruiny |
| Translation | ancient ruins |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Ruiny comes only in the plural, like English "ruins". A castle in ruins is zamok u ruinakh. Watch the spelling: no soft sign inside the word.
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.
- За селом лежать давні руїниZa selom lezhat davni ruinyAncient ruins of a castle stand above the village
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 “ancient ruins” in Ukrainian?
«давні руїни» (davni ruiny), read “davni ruiny”. In a live sentence: “За селом лежать давні руїни” (Za selom lezhat davni ruiny) — Ancient ruins of a castle stand above the village. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters д, а (a), в (v), н, і (i), р, у (U), ї (yi), н, и.
How is “давні руїни” (davni ruiny) written in Latin letters?
davni ruiny. 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?
Ruiny comes only in the plural, like English "ruins". A castle in ruins is zamok u ruinakh. Watch the spelling: no soft sign inside the word. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.