Lingoflyдорожній знак
- дорожній знакdorozhnii znakroad sign
“дорожній знак” (dorozhnii znak) — road sign in Ukrainian. Noun, level A2. The road you already traveled, the sign is the international one — the phrase assembles exactly as expected, a rare passage with no traps. In a live sentence: “Дорожній знак закрило гілля” (Dorozhnii znak zakrylo hillia) — This road sign forbids passing. Written with the characters д, о (o), р, о (o), ж (zh), н, і (i), й (y), з (z), н, а (a), к. A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | дорожній знак (dorozhnii znak) |
| Read in Latin letters | dorozhnii znak |
| Translation | road sign |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
The road you already traveled, the sign is the international one — the phrase assembles exactly as expected, a rare passage with no traps.
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.
- Дорожній знак закрило гілляDorozhnii znak zakrylo hilliaThis road sign forbids passing
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 “road sign” in Ukrainian?
«дорожній знак» (dorozhnii znak), read “dorozhnii znak”. In a live sentence: “Дорожній знак закрило гілля” (Dorozhnii znak zakrylo hillia) — This road sign forbids passing. Noun, level A2; written with the characters д, о (o), р, о (o), ж (zh), н, і (i), й (y), з (z), н, а (a), к.
How is “дорожній знак” (dorozhnii znak) written in Latin letters?
dorozhnii znak. 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 road you already traveled, the sign is the international one — the phrase assembles exactly as expected, a rare passage with no traps. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.