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- піти на пенсіюpity na pensiiuto retire
“піти на пенсію” (pity na pensiiu) — to retire in Ukrainian. Phrase, level B1. Built on "pity", to go — you "go" onto a pension, the same walking verb that takes you home or to the hospital; the next word sets the direction. In a live sentence: “Батько збирається піти на пенсію” (Batko zbyraietsia pity na pensiiu) — Father will retire next year. Written with the characters п, і (i), т, и, н, а (a), п, е, н, с, і (i), ю.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | піти на пенсію (pity na pensiiu) |
| Read in Latin letters | pity na pensiiu |
| Translation | to retire |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Built on "pity", to go — you "go" onto a pension, the same walking verb that takes you home or to the hospital; the next word sets the direction.
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 “to retire” in Ukrainian?
«піти на пенсію» (pity na pensiiu), read “pity na pensiiu”. In a live sentence: “Батько збирається піти на пенсію” (Batko zbyraietsia pity na pensiiu) — Father will retire next year. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters п, і (i), т, и, н, а (a), п, е, н, с, і (i), ю.
How is “піти на пенсію” (pity na pensiiu) written in Latin letters?
pity na pensiiu. 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 "pity", to go — you "go" onto a pension, the same walking verb that takes you home or to the hospital; the next word sets the direction. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.