Lingoflyоплачувана відпустка
- оплачувана відпусткаoplachuvana vidpustkapaid vacation
“оплачувана відпустка” (oplachuvana vidpustka) — paid vacation in Ukrainian. Noun, level B1. "Vidpustka" is the everyday word for vacation or time off. "Oplachuvana" comes from "oplachuvaty", to pay for. The legal minimum in Ukraine is twenty-four days. In a live sentence: “Оплачувана відпустка двадцять чотири дні” (Oplachuvana vidpustka dvadtsiat chotyry dni) — Every worker has a paid vacation.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | оплачувана відпустка (oplachuvana vidpustka) |
| Read in Latin letters | oplachuvana vidpustka |
| Translation | paid vacation |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
"Vidpustka" is the everyday word for vacation or time off. "Oplachuvana" comes from "oplachuvaty", to pay for. The legal minimum in Ukraine is twenty-four days.
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 “paid vacation” in Ukrainian?
«оплачувана відпустка» (oplachuvana vidpustka), read “oplachuvana vidpustka”. In a live sentence: “Оплачувана відпустка двадцять чотири дні” (Oplachuvana vidpustka dvadtsiat chotyry dni) — Every worker has a paid vacation. Noun, level B1; written with the characters о (o), п, л, а (a), ч, у (U), в (v), а (a), н, а (a), в (v), і (i)…
How is “оплачувана відпустка” (oplachuvana vidpustka) written in Latin letters?
oplachuvana vidpustka. 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?
"Vidpustka" is the everyday word for vacation or time off. "Oplachuvana" comes from "oplachuvaty", to pay for. The legal minimum in Ukraine is twenty-four days. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.