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- відшкодувати збиткиvidshkoduvaty zbytkyto compensate damages
“відшкодувати збитки” (vidshkoduvaty zbytky) — to compensate damages in Ukrainian. Phrase, level B1. Vidshkodovuvaty is "to give back in return"; shkoda here is damage, though alone it means "pity". Insurance companies do this daily. In a live sentence: “Страхова має відшкодувати збитки” (Strakhova maie vidshkoduvaty zbytky) — The insurance company compensated the damages in full. Written with the characters в (v), і (i), д, ш, к, о (o), д, у (U), в (v), а (a), т, и… A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | відшкодувати збитки (vidshkoduvaty zbytky) |
| Read in Latin letters | vidshkoduvaty zbytky |
| Translation | to compensate damages |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Vidshkodovuvaty is "to give back in return"; shkoda here is damage, though alone it means "pity". Insurance companies do this daily.
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.
- Страхова має відшкодувати збиткиStrakhova maie vidshkoduvaty zbytkyThe insurance company compensated the damages in full
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 compensate damages” in Ukrainian?
«відшкодувати збитки» (vidshkoduvaty zbytky), read “vidshkoduvaty zbytky”. In a live sentence: “Страхова має відшкодувати збитки” (Strakhova maie vidshkoduvaty zbytky) — The insurance company compensated the damages in full. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters в (v), і (i), д, ш, к, о (o), д, у (U), в (v), а (a), т, и…
How is “відшкодувати збитки” (vidshkoduvaty zbytky) written in Latin letters?
vidshkoduvaty zbytky. 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?
Vidshkodovuvaty is "to give back in return"; shkoda here is damage, though alone it means "pity". Insurance companies do this daily. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.