Lingoflyслужба порятунку
- служба порятункуsluzhba poriatunkurescue service
“служба порятунку” (sluzhba poriatunku) — rescue service in Ukrainian. Noun, level B1. From riatuvaty, "to rescue"; a rescuer is a riatuvalnyk. The emergency number is tied to one word: dzvonite, "call". In a live sentence: “Служба порятунку приїхала першою” (Sluzhba poriatunku pryikhala pershoiu) — The rescue service arrived within half an hour. Written with the characters с, л, у (U), ж (zh), б (b), а (a), п, о (o), р, я (ya), т, у (U)… A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | служба порятунку (sluzhba poriatunku) |
| Read in Latin letters | sluzhba poriatunku |
| Translation | rescue service |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
From riatuvaty, "to rescue"; a rescuer is a riatuvalnyk. The emergency number is tied to one word: dzvonite, "call".
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.
- Служба порятунку приїхала першоюSluzhba poriatunku pryikhala pershoiuThe rescue service arrived within half an hour
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 “rescue service” in Ukrainian?
«служба порятунку» (sluzhba poriatunku), read “sluzhba poriatunku”. In a live sentence: “Служба порятунку приїхала першою” (Sluzhba poriatunku pryikhala pershoiu) — The rescue service arrived within half an hour. Noun, level B1; written with the characters с, л, у (U), ж (zh), б (b), а (a), п, о (o), р, я (ya), т, у (U)…
How is “служба порятунку” (sluzhba poriatunku) written in Latin letters?
sluzhba poriatunku. 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?
From riatuvaty, "to rescue"; a rescuer is a riatuvalnyk. The emergency number is tied to one word: dzvonite, "call". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.