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“тісний” (tisnyi) — cramped in Ukrainian. Adjective, level B1. About a room and about shoes: tisni cherevyky, "tight shoes". Close friendship is tisna druzhba — the same word — and "it is cramped" is tisno, the adverb. In a live sentence: “Тісний коридор не розминутися” (Tisnyi korydor ne rozmynutysia) — The kitchen is too small and cramped. Written with the characters т, і (i), с, н, и, й (y). A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | тісний (tisnyi) |
| Read in Latin letters | tisnyi |
| Translation | cramped |
| Part of speech | adjective |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
About a room and about shoes: tisni cherevyky, "tight shoes". Close friendship is tisna druzhba — the same word — and "it is cramped" is tisno, the adverb.
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 “cramped” in Ukrainian?
«тісний» (tisnyi), read “tisnyi”. In a live sentence: “Тісний коридор не розминутися” (Tisnyi korydor ne rozmynutysia) — The kitchen is too small and cramped. Adjective, level B1; written with the characters т, і (i), с, н, и, й (y).
How is “тісний” (tisnyi) written in Latin letters?
tisnyi. 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?
About a room and about shoes: tisni cherevyky, "tight shoes". Close friendship is tisna druzhba — the same word — and "it is cramped" is tisno, the adverb. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.