Lingoflyпоруч зі світлофором
- поруч зі світлофоромporuch zi svitloforomnext to the traffic light
“поруч зі світлофором” (poruch zi svitloforom) — next to the traffic light in Ukrainian. Phrase, level A2. Poruch iz takes the instrumental, and before z combined with s-, z-, sh- sounds an i slides in: zi mnoiu, zi svitloforom. The traffic light itself is svitlofor, borrowed. In a live sentence: “Аптека поруч зі світлофором” (Apteka poruch zi svitloforom) — The meeting is next to the traffic light. Written with the characters п, о (o), р, у (U), ч, з (z), і (i), с, в (v), і (i), т, л…
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | поруч зі світлофором (poruch zi svitloforom) |
| Read in Latin letters | poruch zi svitloforom |
| Translation | next to the traffic light |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Poruch iz takes the instrumental, and before z combined with s-, z-, sh- sounds an i slides in: zi mnoiu, zi svitloforom. The traffic light itself is svitlofor, borrowed.
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 “next to the traffic light” in Ukrainian?
«поруч зі світлофором» (poruch zi svitloforom), read “poruch zi svitloforom”. In a live sentence: “Аптека поруч зі світлофором” (Apteka poruch zi svitloforom) — The meeting is next to the traffic light. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters п, о (o), р, у (U), ч, з (z), і (i), с, в (v), і (i), т, л…
How is “поруч зі світлофором” (poruch zi svitloforom) written in Latin letters?
poruch zi svitloforom. 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?
Poruch iz takes the instrumental, and before z combined with s-, z-, sh- sounds an i slides in: zi mnoiu, zi svitloforom. The traffic light itself is svitlofor, borrowed. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.