Lingoflyвільний час
- вільний часvilnyi chasfree time
“вільний час” (vilnyi chas) — free time in Ukrainian. Noun, level A2. Vilnyi carries an i and comes from volia, freedom. Chas here means the hours you own, not the hour on the clock — the sentence tells you which. In a live sentence: “У мене зовсім немає вільного часу” (U mene zovsim nemaie vilnoho chasu) — I have no free time at all. Written with the characters в (v), і (i), л, ь, н, и, й (y), ч, а (a), с.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | вільний час (vilnyi chas) |
| Read in Latin letters | vilnyi chas |
| Translation | free time |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Vilnyi carries an i and comes from volia, freedom. Chas here means the hours you own, not the hour on the clock — the sentence tells you which.
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 “free time” in Ukrainian?
«вільний час» (vilnyi chas), read “vilnyi chas”. In a live sentence: “У мене зовсім немає вільного часу” (U mene zovsim nemaie vilnoho chasu) — I have no free time at all. Noun, level A2; written with the characters в (v), і (i), л, ь, н, и, й (y), ч, а (a), с.
How is “вільний час” (vilnyi chas) written in Latin letters?
vilnyi chas. 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?
Vilnyi carries an i and comes from volia, freedom. Chas here means the hours you own, not the hour on the clock — the sentence tells you which. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.