Lingoflyвизнати помилку
- визнати помилкуvyznaty pomylkuto admit a mistake
“визнати помилку” (vyznaty pomylku) — to admit a mistake in Ukrainian. Phrase, level B1. Pomylka is a mistake — small in form, not in weight. Vyznaty is to admit, and to apologize is vybachytysia. In a live sentence: “Визнати помилку не соромно” (Vyznaty pomylku ne soromno) — He managed to admit his mistake in front of everyone. Written with the characters в (v), и, з (z), н, а (a), т, и, п, о (o), м, и, л… A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | визнати помилку (vyznaty pomylku) |
| Read in Latin letters | vyznaty pomylku |
| Translation | to admit a mistake |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Pomylka is a mistake — small in form, not in weight. Vyznaty is to admit, and to apologize is vybachytysia.
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.
- Визнати помилку не соромноVyznaty pomylku ne soromnoHe managed to admit his mistake in front of everyone
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 admit a mistake” in Ukrainian?
«визнати помилку» (vyznaty pomylku), read “vyznaty pomylku”. In a live sentence: “Визнати помилку не соромно” (Vyznaty pomylku ne soromno) — He managed to admit his mistake in front of everyone. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters в (v), и, з (z), н, а (a), т, и, п, о (o), м, и, л…
How is “визнати помилку” (vyznaty pomylku) written in Latin letters?
vyznaty pomylku. 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?
Pomylka is a mistake — small in form, not in weight. Vyznaty is to admit, and to apologize is vybachytysia. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.