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- займатися спортомzaimatysia sportomto do sports
“займатися спортом” (zaimatysia sportom) — to do sports in Ukrainian. Phrase, level A2. Word for word "to occupy oneself with sport" — the sport wears its with-form ending: sportom. What do you do? Chym ty zaimaieshsia? In a live sentence: “Він почав займатися спортом торік” (Vin pochav zaimatysia sportom torik) — He does sports three times a week. Written with the characters з (z), а (a), й (y), м, а (a), т, и, с, я (ya), с, п, о (o)… A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | займатися спортом (zaimatysia sportom) |
| Read in Latin letters | zaimatysia sportom |
| Translation | to do sports |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Word for word "to occupy oneself with sport" — the sport wears its with-form ending: sportom. What do you do? Chym ty zaimaieshsia?
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 “to do sports” in Ukrainian?
«займатися спортом» (zaimatysia sportom), read “zaimatysia sportom”. In a live sentence: “Він почав займатися спортом торік” (Vin pochav zaimatysia sportom torik) — He does sports three times a week. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters з (z), а (a), й (y), м, а (a), т, и, с, я (ya), с, п, о (o)…
How is “займатися спортом” (zaimatysia sportom) written in Latin letters?
zaimatysia sportom. 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?
Word for word "to occupy oneself with sport" — the sport wears its with-form ending: sportom. What do you do? Chym ty zaimaieshsia? A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.