Lingoflyфутбольне поле
- футбольне полеfutbolne polefootball pitch
“футбольне поле” (futbolne pole) — football pitch in Ukrainian. Noun, level A1. The soft sign in futbolne marks the softened l. Pole is one word for the pitch and the village field alike — the adjective carries the sport. In a live sentence: “Футбольне поле за школою” (Futbolne pole za shkoloiu) — The football pitch is behind the school. Written with the characters ф, у (U), т, б (b), о (o), л, ь, н, е, п, о (o), л… A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | футбольне поле (futbolne pole) |
| Read in Latin letters | futbolne pole |
| Translation | football pitch |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The soft sign in futbolne marks the softened l. Pole is one word for the pitch and the village field alike — the adjective carries the sport.
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.
- Футбольне поле за школоюFutbolne pole za shkoloiuThe football pitch is behind the school
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 “football pitch” in Ukrainian?
«футбольне поле» (futbolne pole), read “futbolne pole”. In a live sentence: “Футбольне поле за школою” (Futbolne pole za shkoloiu) — The football pitch is behind the school. Noun, level A1; written with the characters ф, у (U), т, б (b), о (o), л, ь, н, е, п, о (o), л…
How is “футбольне поле” (futbolne pole) written in Latin letters?
futbolne pole. 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 soft sign in futbolne marks the softened l. Pole is one word for the pitch and the village field alike — the adjective carries the sport. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.