Lingoflyшкідлива звичка
- шкідлива звичкаshkidlyva zvychkabad habit
“шкідлива звичка” (shkidlyva zvychka) — bad habit in Ukrainian. Noun, level B1. Zvychka covers both "habit" and "custom" in one word. The bad kind is shkidlyva, from shkoda, "harm, damage" — a harmful habit, said the straightforward way. In a live sentence: “Шкідлива звичка не зникає за день” (Shkidlyva zvychka ne znykaie za den) — Biting your nails is a bad habit.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | шкідлива звичка (shkidlyva zvychka) |
| Read in Latin letters | shkidlyva zvychka |
| Translation | bad habit |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Zvychka covers both "habit" and "custom" in one word. The bad kind is shkidlyva, from shkoda, "harm, damage" — a harmful habit, said the straightforward way.
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.
- Шкідлива звичка не зникає за деньShkidlyva zvychka ne znykaie za denBiting your nails is a bad habit
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 “bad habit” in Ukrainian?
«шкідлива звичка» (shkidlyva zvychka), read “shkidlyva zvychka”. In a live sentence: “Шкідлива звичка не зникає за день” (Shkidlyva zvychka ne znykaie za den) — Biting your nails is a bad habit. Noun, level B1; written with the characters ш, к, і (i), д, л, и, в (v), а (a), з (z), в (v), и, ч…
How is “шкідлива звичка” (shkidlyva zvychka) written in Latin letters?
shkidlyva zvychka. 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?
Zvychka covers both "habit" and "custom" in one word. The bad kind is shkidlyva, from shkoda, "harm, damage" — a harmful habit, said the straightforward way. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.