Lingoflyвласний бізнес
- власний бізнесvlasnyi biznesone's own business
“власний бізнес” (vlasnyi biznes) — one's own business in Ukrainian. Noun, level B1. "Vlasnyi" is one's own, from "vlasnist", property. An ad may say "vlasna sprava" — one's own affair — and "sprava" here is a matter, not a problem. In a live sentence: “Вона відкрила власний бізнес торік” (Vona vidkryla vlasnyi biznes torik) — She opened her own business.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | власний бізнес (vlasnyi biznes) |
| Read in Latin letters | vlasnyi biznes |
| Translation | one's own business |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
"Vlasnyi" is one's own, from "vlasnist", property. An ad may say "vlasna sprava" — one's own affair — and "sprava" here is a matter, not a problem.
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 “one's own business” in Ukrainian?
«власний бізнес» (vlasnyi biznes), read “vlasnyi biznes”. In a live sentence: “Вона відкрила власний бізнес торік” (Vona vidkryla vlasnyi biznes torik) — She opened her own business. Noun, level B1; written with the characters в (v), л, а (a), с, н, и, й (y), б (b), і (i), з (z), н, е…
How is “власний бізнес” (vlasnyi biznes) written in Latin letters?
vlasnyi biznes. 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?
"Vlasnyi" is one's own, from "vlasnist", property. An ad may say "vlasna sprava" — one's own affair — and "sprava" here is a matter, not a problem. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.