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- оцінкаotsinkagrade (mark)
“оцінка” (otsinka) — grade (mark) in Ukrainian. Noun, level A2. Built on tsina, price: a grade is what the work was valued at. The school scale runs to twelve — a top mark is ten, eleven, twelve. In a live sentence: “Оцінка за семестр вийшла добра” (Otsinka za semestr vyishla dobra) — I got a ten for a grade. Written with the characters о (o), ц, і (i), н, к, а (a). A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | оцінка (otsinka) |
| Read in Latin letters | otsinka |
| Translation | grade (mark) |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Built on tsina, price: a grade is what the work was valued at. The school scale runs to twelve — a top mark is ten, eleven, twelve.
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.
- Оцінка за семестр вийшла добраOtsinka za semestr vyishla dobraI got a ten for a grade
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 “grade (mark)” in Ukrainian?
«оцінка» (otsinka), read “otsinka”. In a live sentence: “Оцінка за семестр вийшла добра” (Otsinka za semestr vyishla dobra) — I got a ten for a grade. Noun, level A2; written with the characters о (o), ц, і (i), н, к, а (a).
How is “оцінка” (otsinka) written in Latin letters?
otsinka. 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?
Built on tsina, price: a grade is what the work was valued at. The school scale runs to twelve — a top mark is ten, eleven, twelve. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.