Lingoflyвзяли на роботу
- взяли на роботуvzialy na robotuto be hired
“взяли на роботу” (vzialy na robotu) — to be hired in Ukrainian. Phrase, level A2. The impersonal "they took" is the normal way to say it — no subject, pure conversation. From "vziaty", to take, the same verb as taking a loan at the bank. In a live sentence: “Мене взяли на роботу з першого числа” (Mene vzialy na robotu z pershoho chysla) — They hired me, I start on Monday.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | взяли на роботу (vzialy na robotu) |
| Read in Latin letters | vzialy na robotu |
| Translation | to be hired |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
The impersonal "they took" is the normal way to say it — no subject, pure conversation. From "vziaty", to take, the same verb as taking a loan at the bank.
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.
- Мене взяли на роботу з першого числаMene vzialy na robotu z pershoho chyslaThey hired me, I start on Monday
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 be hired” in Ukrainian?
«взяли на роботу» (vzialy na robotu), read “vzialy na robotu”. In a live sentence: “Мене взяли на роботу з першого числа” (Mene vzialy na robotu z pershoho chysla) — They hired me, I start on Monday. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters в (v), з (z), я (ya), л, и, н, а (a), р, о (o), б (b), о (o), т…
How is “взяли на роботу” (vzialy na robotu) written in Latin letters?
vzialy na robotu. 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 impersonal "they took" is the normal way to say it — no subject, pure conversation. From "vziaty", to take, the same verb as taking a loan at the bank. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.