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- дорожня поліціяdorozhnia politsiiatraffic police
“дорожня поліція” (dorozhnia politsiia) — traffic police in Ukrainian. Noun, level B1. On the news the patrol service goes by "patrulna politsiia"; "dorozhnia politsiia" is the word from the laws. Both mean the flashing light in the mirror. In a live sentence: “Дорожня поліція зупинила нас на виїзді” (Dorozhnia politsiia zupynyla nas na vyizdi) — The traffic police stopped a driver.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | дорожня поліція (dorozhnia politsiia) |
| Read in Latin letters | dorozhnia politsiia |
| Translation | traffic police |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
On the news the patrol service goes by "patrulna politsiia"; "dorozhnia politsiia" is the word from the laws. Both mean the flashing light in the mirror.
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.
- Дорожня поліція зупинила нас на виїздіDorozhnia politsiia zupynyla nas na vyizdiThe traffic police stopped a driver
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 “traffic police” in Ukrainian?
«дорожня поліція» (dorozhnia politsiia), read “dorozhnia politsiia”. In a live sentence: “Дорожня поліція зупинила нас на виїзді” (Dorozhnia politsiia zupynyla nas na vyizdi) — The traffic police stopped a driver. Noun, level B1; written with the characters д, о (o), р, о (o), ж (zh), н, я (ya), п, о (o), л, і (i), ц…
How is “дорожня поліція” (dorozhnia politsiia) written in Latin letters?
dorozhnia politsiia. 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?
On the news the patrol service goes by "patrulna politsiia"; "dorozhnia politsiia" is the word from the laws. Both mean the flashing light in the mirror. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.