Lingoflyробочий день
- робочий деньrobochyi denworkday
“робочий день” (robochyi den) — workday in Ukrainian. Noun, level A2. The first word is from robota, "work" — note the o where you might not expect it. A workday is eight hours, as everywhere. In a live sentence: “Робочий день до шостої” (Robochyi den do shostoi) — The workday ends at six. Written with the characters р, о (o), б (b), о (o), ч, и, й (y), д, е, н, ь. A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | робочий день (robochyi den) |
| Read in Latin letters | robochyi den |
| Translation | workday |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
The first word is from robota, "work" — note the o where you might not expect it. A workday is eight hours, as everywhere.
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.
- Робочий день до шостоїRobochyi den do shostoiThe workday ends at six
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 “workday” in Ukrainian?
«робочий день» (robochyi den), read “robochyi den”. In a live sentence: “Робочий день до шостої” (Robochyi den do shostoi) — The workday ends at six. Noun, level A2; written with the characters р, о (o), б (b), о (o), ч, и, й (y), д, е, н, ь.
How is “робочий день” (robochyi den) written in Latin letters?
robochyi den. 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?
The first word is from robota, "work" — note the o where you might not expect it. A workday is eight hours, as everywhere. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.