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- дурнийdurnyistupid
“дурний” (durnyi) — stupid in Ukrainian. Adjective, level A1. The everyday word for the foolish kind, durnyi. The idiom z durnoho rozumu — out of a foolish mind — explains any silly act in one phrase. In a live sentence: “Дурний жарт нікого не розсмішив” (Durnyi zhart nikoho ne rozsmishyv) — The stupid joke made nobody laugh. Written with the characters д, у (U), р, н, и, й (y). A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | дурний (durnyi) |
| Read in Latin letters | durnyi |
| Translation | stupid |
| Part of speech | adjective |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The everyday word for the foolish kind, durnyi. The idiom z durnoho rozumu — out of a foolish mind — explains any silly act in one phrase.
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.
- Дурний жарт нікого не розсмішивDurnyi zhart nikoho ne rozsmishyvThe stupid joke made nobody laugh
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 “stupid” in Ukrainian?
«дурний» (durnyi), read “durnyi”. In a live sentence: “Дурний жарт нікого не розсмішив” (Durnyi zhart nikoho ne rozsmishyv) — The stupid joke made nobody laugh. Adjective, level A1; written with the characters д, у (U), р, н, и, й (y).
How is “дурний” (durnyi) written in Latin letters?
durnyi. 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 everyday word for the foolish kind, durnyi. The idiom z durnoho rozumu — out of a foolish mind — explains any silly act in one phrase. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.