Lingoflyзаява про звільнення
- заява про звільненняzaiava pro zvilnenniaresignation letter
“заява про звільнення” (zaiava pro zvilnennia) — resignation letter in Ukrainian. Noun, level B1. The same "zaiava" as at the police station, only now about leaving. The notice period is usually two weeks — something you might need. In a live sentence: “Заяву про звільнення подають за два тижні” (Zaiavu pro zvilnennia podaiut za dva tyzhni) — I wrote my resignation letter.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | заява про звільнення (zaiava pro zvilnennia) |
| Read in Latin letters | zaiava pro zvilnennia |
| Translation | resignation letter |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
The same "zaiava" as at the police station, only now about leaving. The notice period is usually two weeks — something you might need.
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 “resignation letter” in Ukrainian?
«заява про звільнення» (zaiava pro zvilnennia), read “zaiava pro zvilnennia”. In a live sentence: “Заяву про звільнення подають за два тижні” (Zaiavu pro zvilnennia podaiut za dva tyzhni) — I wrote my resignation letter. Noun, level B1; written with the characters з (z), а (a), я (ya), в (v), а (a), п, р, о (o), з (z), в (v), і (i), л…
How is “заява про звільнення” (zaiava pro zvilnennia) written in Latin letters?
zaiava pro zvilnennia. 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 "zaiava" as at the police station, only now about leaving. The notice period is usually two weeks — something you might need. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.