Lingoflyвільний номер
- вільний номерvilnyi nomervacant room
“вільний номер” (vilnyi nomer) — vacant room in Ukrainian. Noun, level A2. The same "free" as free time and free people — liberty applied to a door with a free bed behind it. In a live sentence: “Чи є вільний номер на сьогодні?” (Chy ye vilnyi nomer na sohodni) — Is there a vacant room? Written with the characters в (v), і (i), л, ь, н, и, й (y), н, о (o), м, е, р. A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | вільний номер (vilnyi nomer) |
| Read in Latin letters | vilnyi nomer |
| Translation | vacant room |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
The same "free" as free time and free people — liberty applied to a door with a free bed behind it.
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 “vacant room” in Ukrainian?
«вільний номер» (vilnyi nomer), read “vilnyi nomer”. In a live sentence: “Чи є вільний номер на сьогодні?” (Chy ye vilnyi nomer na sohodni) — Is there a vacant room? Noun, level A2; written with the characters в (v), і (i), л, ь, н, и, й (y), н, о (o), м, е, р.
How is “вільний номер” (vilnyi nomer) written in Latin letters?
vilnyi nomer. 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?
The same "free" as free time and free people — liberty applied to a door with a free bed behind it. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.