Lingoflyзалишитися без грошей
- залишитися без грошейzalyshytysia bez hrosheito be left without money
“залишитися без грошей” (zalyshytysia bez hroshei) — to be left without money in Ukrainian. Phrase, level B1. "Zalyshyty" is to leave something somewhere; the reflexive "-ysia" makes it about yourself staying. After "bez" comes the "of" form, as expected. In a live sentence: “Страшно залишитися без грошей за кордоном” (Strashno zalyshytysia bez hroshei za kordonom) — We were left without money. Written with the characters з (z), а (a), л, и, ш, и, т, и, с, я (ya), б (b), е… A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | залишитися без грошей (zalyshytysia bez hroshei) |
| Read in Latin letters | zalyshytysia bez hroshei |
| Translation | to be left without money |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
"Zalyshyty" is to leave something somewhere; the reflexive "-ysia" makes it about yourself staying. After "bez" comes the "of" form, as expected.
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.
- Страшно залишитися без грошей за кордономStrashno zalyshytysia bez hroshei za kordonomWe were left without money
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 left without money” in Ukrainian?
«залишитися без грошей» (zalyshytysia bez hroshei), read “zalyshytysia bez hroshei”. In a live sentence: “Страшно залишитися без грошей за кордоном” (Strashno zalyshytysia bez hroshei za kordonom) — We were left without money. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters з (z), а (a), л, и, ш, и, т, и, с, я (ya), б (b), е…
How is “залишитися без грошей” (zalyshytysia bez hroshei) written in Latin letters?
zalyshytysia bez hroshei. 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?
"Zalyshyty" is to leave something somewhere; the reflexive "-ysia" makes it about yourself staying. After "bez" comes the "of" form, as expected. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.