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- сімейний станsimeinyi stanmarital status
“сімейний стан” (simeinyi stan) — marital status in Ukrainian. Noun, level A1. Stan is a state, a standing — from the verb to stand. The family adjective rides on simia, the family: your standing as a family creature. In a live sentence: “Графа «сімейний стан» порожня” (Hrafa «simeinyi stan» porozhnia) — The marital status field is empty. Written with the characters с, і (i), м, е, й (y), н, и, й (y), с, т, а (a), н. A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | сімейний стан (simeinyi stan) |
| Read in Latin letters | simeinyi stan |
| Translation | marital status |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Stan is a state, a standing — from the verb to stand. The family adjective rides on simia, the family: your standing as a family creature.
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.
- Графа «сімейний стан» порожняHrafa «simeinyi stan» porozhniaThe marital status field is empty
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 “marital status” in Ukrainian?
«сімейний стан» (simeinyi stan), read “simeinyi stan”. In a live sentence: “Графа «сімейний стан» порожня” (Hrafa «simeinyi stan» porozhnia) — The marital status field is empty. Noun, level A1; written with the characters с, і (i), м, е, й (y), н, и, й (y), с, т, а (a), н.
How is “сімейний стан” (simeinyi stan) written in Latin letters?
simeinyi stan. 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?
Stan is a state, a standing — from the verb to stand. The family adjective rides on simia, the family: your standing as a family creature. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.