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- шукати роботуshukaty robotuto look for a job
“шукати роботу” (shukaty robotu) — to look for a job in Ukrainian. Phrase, level A2. "Shukaty" is the verb for hunting for lost luggage too. "Shukaiu robotu" is the standard opening line of any search. In a live sentence: “Я почав шукати роботу в січні” (Ya pochav shukaty robotu v sichni) — I am looking for a job near home. Written with the characters ш, у (U), к, а (a), т, и, р, о (o), б (b), о (o), т, у (U).
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | шукати роботу (shukaty robotu) |
| Read in Latin letters | shukaty robotu |
| Translation | to look for a job |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
"Shukaty" is the verb for hunting for lost luggage too. "Shukaiu robotu" is the standard opening line of any search.
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 look for a job” in Ukrainian?
«шукати роботу» (shukaty robotu), read “shukaty robotu”. In a live sentence: “Я почав шукати роботу в січні” (Ya pochav shukaty robotu v sichni) — I am looking for a job near home. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters ш, у (U), к, а (a), т, и, р, о (o), б (b), о (o), т, у (U).
How is “шукати роботу” (shukaty robotu) written in Latin letters?
shukaty robotu. 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?
"Shukaty" is the verb for hunting for lost luggage too. "Shukaiu robotu" is the standard opening line of any search. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.