Lingoflyмені важко дається
- мені важко даєтьсяmeni vazhko daietsiaI find it hard
“мені важко дається” (meni vazhko daietsia) — I find it hard in Ukrainian. Phrase, level B1. Literally "it gives itself hardly to me" — the to-form again instead of a subject. The flip side is meni lehko daietsia, it comes easily to me. Grammar is hard for me, words come easy. In a live sentence: “Граматика мені важко дається” (Hramatyka meni vazhko daietsia) — Grammar comes hard to me, but words come easy.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | мені важко дається (meni vazhko daietsia) |
| Read in Latin letters | meni vazhko daietsia |
| Translation | I find it hard |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "it gives itself hardly to me" — the to-form again instead of a subject. The flip side is meni lehko daietsia, it comes easily to me. Grammar is hard for me, words come easy.
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.
- Граматика мені важко даєтьсяHramatyka meni vazhko daietsiaGrammar comes hard to me, but words come easy
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 find it hard” in Ukrainian?
«мені важко дається» (meni vazhko daietsia), read “meni vazhko daietsia”. In a live sentence: “Граматика мені важко дається” (Hramatyka meni vazhko daietsia) — Grammar comes hard to me, but words come easy. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters м, е, н, і (i), в (v), а (a), ж (zh), к, о (o), д, а (a), є (ye)…
How is “мені важко дається” (meni vazhko daietsia) written in Latin letters?
meni vazhko daietsia. 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?
Literally "it gives itself hardly to me" — the to-form again instead of a subject. The flip side is meni lehko daietsia, it comes easily to me. Grammar is hard for me, words come easy. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.