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- урядuriadgovernment
“уряд” (uriad) — government in Ukrainian. Noun, level B1. From an old verb for arranging things — the government is what arranges the state. Its head is the premier; the president heads the state. Mixing those two jobs up is rude here too. In a live sentence: “Уряд ухвалив нову програму” (Uriad ukhvalyv novu prohramu) — The government adopted new measures. Written with the characters у (U), р, я (ya), д. A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | уряд (uriad) |
| Read in Latin letters | uriad |
| Translation | government |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
From an old verb for arranging things — the government is what arranges the state. Its head is the premier; the president heads the state. Mixing those two jobs up is rude here too.
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.
- Уряд ухвалив нову програмуUriad ukhvalyv novu prohramuThe government adopted new measures
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 “government” in Ukrainian?
«уряд» (uriad), read “uriad”. In a live sentence: “Уряд ухвалив нову програму” (Uriad ukhvalyv novu prohramu) — The government adopted new measures. Noun, level B1; written with the characters у (U), р, я (ya), д.
How is “уряд” (uriad) written in Latin letters?
uriad. 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 an old verb for arranging things — the government is what arranges the state. Its head is the premier; the president heads the state. Mixing those two jobs up is rude here too. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.