Lingoflyскасувати зустріч
- скасувати зустрічskasuvaty zustrichto cancel a meeting
“скасувати зустріч” (skasuvaty zustrich) — to cancel a meeting in Ukrainian. Phrase, level B1. Skasuvaty is the everyday word for canceling. Its noun is skasuvannia, as in skasuvannia reisu, "flight cancellation" — the same verb behind both. In a live sentence: “Довелося скасувати зустріч через хворобу” (Dovelosia skasuvaty zustrich cherez khvorobu) — I had to cancel the meeting. Written with the characters с, к, а (a), с, у (U), в (v), а (a), т, и, з (z), у (U), с… A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | скасувати зустріч (skasuvaty zustrich) |
| Read in Latin letters | skasuvaty zustrich |
| Translation | to cancel a meeting |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Skasuvaty is the everyday word for canceling. Its noun is skasuvannia, as in skasuvannia reisu, "flight cancellation" — the same verb behind both.
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.
- Довелося скасувати зустріч через хворобуDovelosia skasuvaty zustrich cherez khvorobuI had to cancel the meeting
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 cancel a meeting” in Ukrainian?
«скасувати зустріч» (skasuvaty zustrich), read “skasuvaty zustrich”. In a live sentence: “Довелося скасувати зустріч через хворобу” (Dovelosia skasuvaty zustrich cherez khvorobu) — I had to cancel the meeting. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters с, к, а (a), с, у (U), в (v), а (a), т, и, з (z), у (U), с…
How is “скасувати зустріч” (skasuvaty zustrich) written in Latin letters?
skasuvaty zustrich. 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?
Skasuvaty is the everyday word for canceling. Its noun is skasuvannia, as in skasuvannia reisu, "flight cancellation" — the same verb behind both. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.