Lingoflyне вистачає грошей
- не вистачає грошейne vystachaie hrosheithere is not enough money
“не вистачає грошей” (ne vystachaie hroshei) — there is not enough money in Ukrainian. Phrase, level A2. The "not" steps in front of the verb and the of-form stays: ne vystachaie chasu, ne vystachaie ruk. Negation never bends this construction. In a live sentence: “До зарплати не вистачає грошей” (Do zarplaty ne vystachaie hroshei) — There is not enough money until payday.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | не вистачає грошей (ne vystachaie hroshei) |
| Read in Latin letters | ne vystachaie hroshei |
| Translation | there is not enough money |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
The "not" steps in front of the verb and the of-form stays: ne vystachaie chasu, ne vystachaie ruk. Negation never bends this construction.
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.
- До зарплати не вистачає грошейDo zarplaty ne vystachaie hrosheiThere is not enough money until payday
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 “there is not enough money” in Ukrainian?
«не вистачає грошей» (ne vystachaie hroshei), read “ne vystachaie hroshei”. In a live sentence: “До зарплати не вистачає грошей” (Do zarplaty ne vystachaie hroshei) — There is not enough money until payday. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters н, е, в (v), и, с, т, а (a), ч, а (a), є (ye), г, р…
How is “не вистачає грошей” (ne vystachaie hroshei) written in Latin letters?
ne vystachaie hroshei. 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 "not" steps in front of the verb and the of-form stays: ne vystachaie chasu, ne vystachaie ruk. Negation never bends this construction. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.