Lingoflyдень народження
- день народженняden narodzhenniabirthday
“день народження” (den narodzhennia) — birthday in Ukrainian. Noun, level A1. Literally "day of birth". The greeting is short: Z dnem narodzhennia! — "with the day of birth". In a live sentence: “У сестри день народження в травні” (U sestry den narodzhennia v travni) — Today is my birthday. Written with the characters д, е, н, ь, н, а (a), р, о (o), д, ж (zh), е, н… A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | день народження (den narodzhennia) |
| Read in Latin letters | den narodzhennia |
| Translation | birthday |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "day of birth". The greeting is short: Z dnem narodzhennia! — "with the day of birth".
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 “birthday” in Ukrainian?
«день народження» (den narodzhennia), read “den narodzhennia”. In a live sentence: “У сестри день народження в травні” (U sestry den narodzhennia v travni) — Today is my birthday. Noun, level A1; written with the characters д, е, н, ь, н, а (a), р, о (o), д, ж (zh), е, н…
How is “день народження” (den narodzhennia) written in Latin letters?
den narodzhennia. 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?
Literally "day of birth". The greeting is short: Z dnem narodzhennia! — "with the day of birth". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.