Lingoflyстраховий випадок
- страховий випадокstrakhovyi vypadokinsured event
“страховий випадок” (strakhovyi vypadok) — insured event in Ukrainian. Noun, level B1. Vypadok is a case or an occurrence — also the word inside the phrase take buvaie, that happens. The insurer pays only for the insured event: the one written in the contract. In a live sentence: “Це не страховий випадок” (Tse ne strakhovyi vypadok) — This is not an insured event.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | страховий випадок (strakhovyi vypadok) |
| Read in Latin letters | strakhovyi vypadok |
| Translation | insured event |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Vypadok is a case or an occurrence — also the word inside the phrase take buvaie, that happens. The insurer pays only for the insured event: the one written in the contract.
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.
- Це не страховий випадокTse ne strakhovyi vypadokThis is not an insured event
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 “insured event” in Ukrainian?
«страховий випадок» (strakhovyi vypadok), read “strakhovyi vypadok”. In a live sentence: “Це не страховий випадок” (Tse ne strakhovyi vypadok) — This is not an insured event. Noun, level B1; written with the characters с, т, р, а (a), х, о (o), в (v), и, й (y), в (v), и, п…
How is “страховий випадок” (strakhovyi vypadok) written in Latin letters?
strakhovyi vypadok. 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?
Vypadok is a case or an occurrence — also the word inside the phrase take buvaie, that happens. The insurer pays only for the insured event: the one written in the contract. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.