Lingoflyпорушити договір
- порушити договірporushyty dohovirto breach a contract
“порушити договір” (porushyty dohovir) — to breach a contract in Ukrainian. Phrase, level B1. From rushyty, "to move, shift": breaching is shifting what was fixed. You can also breach a law or the silence — porushuvaty tyshu — one verb for all. In a live sentence: “Порушити договір коштує дорого” (Porushyty dohovir koshtuie doroho) — Whoever breaches the contract pays a fine.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | порушити договір (porushyty dohovir) |
| Read in Latin letters | porushyty dohovir |
| Translation | to breach a contract |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
From rushyty, "to move, shift": breaching is shifting what was fixed. You can also breach a law or the silence — porushuvaty tyshu — one verb for all.
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.
- Порушити договір коштує дорогоPorushyty dohovir koshtuie dorohoWhoever breaches the contract pays a fine
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 breach a contract” in Ukrainian?
«порушити договір» (porushyty dohovir), read “porushyty dohovir”. In a live sentence: “Порушити договір коштує дорого” (Porushyty dohovir koshtuie doroho) — Whoever breaches the contract pays a fine. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters п, о (o), р, у (U), ш, и, т, и, д, о (o), г, о (o)…
How is “порушити договір” (porushyty dohovir) written in Latin letters?
porushyty dohovir. 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?
From rushyty, "to move, shift": breaching is shifting what was fixed. You can also breach a law or the silence — porushuvaty tyshu — one verb for all. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.