Lingoflyпосвідчення особи
- посвідчення особиposvidchennia osobyidentity card
“посвідчення особи” (posvidchennia osoby) — identity card in Ukrainian. Noun, level A2. From the same "svidchyty" as the certificates. In speech it shrinks to "pasport" — the internal passport is the identity card; the foreign-travel one is separate. In a live sentence: “Покажіть посвідчення особи” (Pokazhit posvidchennia osoby) — I left my identity card at home. Written with the characters п, о (o), с, в (v), і (i), д, ч, е, н, н, я (ya), о (o)… A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | посвідчення особи (posvidchennia osoby) |
| Read in Latin letters | posvidchennia osoby |
| Translation | identity card |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
From the same "svidchyty" as the certificates. In speech it shrinks to "pasport" — the internal passport is the identity card; the foreign-travel one is separate.
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.
- Покажіть посвідчення особиPokazhit posvidchennia osobyI left my identity card at home
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 “identity card” in Ukrainian?
«посвідчення особи» (posvidchennia osoby), read “posvidchennia osoby”. In a live sentence: “Покажіть посвідчення особи” (Pokazhit posvidchennia osoby) — I left my identity card at home. Noun, level A2; written with the characters п, о (o), с, в (v), і (i), д, ч, е, н, н, я (ya), о (o)…
How is “посвідчення особи” (posvidchennia osoby) written in Latin letters?
posvidchennia osoby. 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 the same "svidchyty" as the certificates. In speech it shrinks to "pasport" — the internal passport is the identity card; the foreign-travel one is separate. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.