Lingoflyобідня перерва
- обідня перерваobidnia perervalunch break
“обідня перерва” (obidnia pererva) — lunch break in Ukrainian. Noun, level A1. Obidnyi is the adjective from obid, "lunch", with a soft n in the middle. Pererva means "break" — the pair is standard office and school vocabulary. In a live sentence: “Обідня перерва з першої до другої” (Obidnia pererva z pershoi do druhoi) — The lunch break runs from one to two.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | обідня перерва (obidnia pererva) |
| Read in Latin letters | obidnia pererva |
| Translation | lunch break |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Obidnyi is the adjective from obid, "lunch", with a soft n in the middle. Pererva means "break" — the pair is standard office and school vocabulary.
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.
- Обідня перерва з першої до другоїObidnia pererva z pershoi do druhoiThe lunch break runs from one to two
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 “lunch break” in Ukrainian?
«обідня перерва» (obidnia pererva), read “obidnia pererva”. In a live sentence: “Обідня перерва з першої до другої” (Obidnia pererva z pershoi do druhoi) — The lunch break runs from one to two. Noun, level A1; written with the characters о (o), б (b), і (i), д, н, я (ya), п, е, р, е, р, в (v)…
How is “обідня перерва” (obidnia pererva) written in Latin letters?
obidnia pererva. 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?
Obidnyi is the adjective from obid, "lunch", with a soft n in the middle. Pererva means "break" — the pair is standard office and school vocabulary. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.