порт
“порт” — port in Ukrainian. Noun, level A2. Same international word everywhere. The Odesa port is the most famous one in the country, so you will hear it constantly there. In a live sentence: “Судно вийшло з порту” — Boats in the port. A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | порт |
| Translation | port |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Same international word everywhere. The Odesa port is the most famous one in the country, so you will hear it constantly there.
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.
- Судно вийшло з портуBoats in the port
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 “port” in Ukrainian?
«порт». In a live sentence: “Судно вийшло з порту” — Boats in the port. Noun, level A2.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Same international word everywhere. The Odesa port is the most famous one in the country, so you will hear it constantly there. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.