Lingoflyмені набридло
- мені набридлоmeni nabrydloI am fed up
“мені набридло” (meni nabrydlo) — I am fed up in Ukrainian. Phrase, level B1. From nabrydnuty, "to become tiresome". What exactly you are fed up with stands in the "of" form: fed up with waiting — nabrydlo chekaty. The construction is subjectless, like "it bores me". In a live sentence: “Мені набридло чекати” (Meni nabrydlo chekaty) — I am fed up with waiting. Written with the characters м, е, н, і (i), н, а (a), б (b), р, и, д, л, о (o).
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | мені набридло (meni nabrydlo) |
| Read in Latin letters | meni nabrydlo |
| Translation | I am fed up |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
From nabrydnuty, "to become tiresome". What exactly you are fed up with stands in the "of" form: fed up with waiting — nabrydlo chekaty. The construction is subjectless, like "it bores me".
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 “I am fed up” in Ukrainian?
«мені набридло» (meni nabrydlo), read “meni nabrydlo”. In a live sentence: “Мені набридло чекати” (Meni nabrydlo chekaty) — I am fed up with waiting. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters м, е, н, і (i), н, а (a), б (b), р, и, д, л, о (o).
How is “мені набридло” (meni nabrydlo) written in Latin letters?
meni nabrydlo. 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?
From nabrydnuty, "to become tiresome". What exactly you are fed up with stands in the "of" form: fed up with waiting — nabrydlo chekaty. The construction is subjectless, like "it bores me". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.