Lingoflyсезон дощів
- сезон дощівsezon doshchivrainy season
“сезон дощів” (sezon doshchiv) — rainy season in Ukrainian. Noun, level A2. Sezon is "season", doshch is "rain". Ukraine does not have one, but talk of the tropics does. In a live sentence: “У травні починається сезон дощів” (U travni pochynaietsia sezon doshchiv) — In the tropics it is the rainy season. Written with the characters с, е, з (z), о (o), н, д, о (o), щ, і (i), в (v). A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | сезон дощів (sezon doshchiv) |
| Read in Latin letters | sezon doshchiv |
| Translation | rainy season |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Sezon is "season", doshch is "rain". Ukraine does not have one, but talk of the tropics does.
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.
- У травні починається сезон дощівU travni pochynaietsia sezon doshchivIn the tropics it is the rainy season
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 “rainy season” in Ukrainian?
«сезон дощів» (sezon doshchiv), read “sezon doshchiv”. In a live sentence: “У травні починається сезон дощів” (U travni pochynaietsia sezon doshchiv) — In the tropics it is the rainy season. Noun, level A2; written with the characters с, е, з (z), о (o), н, д, о (o), щ, і (i), в (v).
How is “сезон дощів” (sezon doshchiv) written in Latin letters?
sezon doshchiv. 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?
Sezon is "season", doshch is "rain". Ukraine does not have one, but talk of the tropics does. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.