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- обіцятиobitsiatyto promise
“обіцяти” (obitsiaty) — to promise in Ukrainian. Verb, level A2. A promise is an "obitsianka" — and here a word of honor. Well, I promise, says the example. In a live sentence: “Не варто обіцяти забагато” (Ne varto obitsiaty zabahato) — All right, I promise. Written with the characters о (o), б (b), і (i), ц, я (ya), т, и. A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | обіцяти (obitsiaty) |
| Read in Latin letters | obitsiaty |
| Translation | to promise |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
A promise is an "obitsianka" — and here a word of honor. Well, I promise, says the example.
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.
- Не варто обіцяти забагатоNe varto obitsiaty zabahatoAll right, I promise
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 “to promise” in Ukrainian?
«обіцяти» (obitsiaty), read “obitsiaty”. In a live sentence: “Не варто обіцяти забагато” (Ne varto obitsiaty zabahato) — All right, I promise. Verb, level A2; written with the characters о (o), б (b), і (i), ц, я (ya), т, и.
How is “обіцяти” (obitsiaty) written in Latin letters?
obitsiaty. 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?
A promise is an "obitsianka" — and here a word of honor. Well, I promise, says the example. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.