Lingoflyнаступного місяця
- наступного місяцяnastupnoho misiatsianext month
“наступного місяця” (nastupnoho misiatsia) — next month in Ukrainian. Phrase, level A2. Nastupnyi means coming-up, on its way — from nastupaty, to advance. Again no preposition: one of-form phrase does the whole job. In a live sentence: “Наступного місяця буде іспит” (Nastupnoho misiatsia bude ispyt) — There will be an exam next month. Written with the characters н, а (a), с, т, у (U), п, н, о (o), г, о (o), м, і (i)… A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | наступного місяця (nastupnoho misiatsia) |
| Read in Latin letters | nastupnoho misiatsia |
| Translation | next month |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Nastupnyi means coming-up, on its way — from nastupaty, to advance. Again no preposition: one of-form phrase does the whole job.
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 “next month” in Ukrainian?
«наступного місяця» (nastupnoho misiatsia), read “nastupnoho misiatsia”. In a live sentence: “Наступного місяця буде іспит” (Nastupnoho misiatsia bude ispyt) — There will be an exam next month. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters н, а (a), с, т, у (U), п, н, о (o), г, о (o), м, і (i)…
How is “наступного місяця” (nastupnoho misiatsia) written in Latin letters?
nastupnoho misiatsia. 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?
Nastupnyi means coming-up, on its way — from nastupaty, to advance. Again no preposition: one of-form phrase does the whole job. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.