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- ревнуватиrevnuvatyto be jealous
“ревнувати” (revnuvaty) — to be jealous in Ukrainian. Verb, level B1. Spelled with a v: revnuvaty. Jealous OF someone takes the preposition do — revnuvati do brata — and the preposition carries the whole meaning. In a live sentence: “Не варто ревнувати без причини” (Ne varto revnuvaty bez prychyny) — He is jealous of his brother. Written with the characters р, е, в (v), н, у (U), в (v), а (a), т, и. A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | ревнувати (revnuvaty) |
| Read in Latin letters | revnuvaty |
| Translation | to be jealous |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Spelled with a v: revnuvaty. Jealous OF someone takes the preposition do — revnuvati do brata — and the preposition carries the whole meaning.
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 be jealous” in Ukrainian?
«ревнувати» (revnuvaty), read “revnuvaty”. In a live sentence: “Не варто ревнувати без причини” (Ne varto revnuvaty bez prychyny) — He is jealous of his brother. Verb, level B1; written with the characters р, е, в (v), н, у (U), в (v), а (a), т, и.
How is “ревнувати” (revnuvaty) written in Latin letters?
revnuvaty. 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?
Spelled with a v: revnuvaty. Jealous OF someone takes the preposition do — revnuvati do brata — and the preposition carries the whole meaning. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.