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“чайна ложка” (chaina lozhka) — teaspoon in Ukrainian. Noun, level A1. The little spoon differs only by its adjective, and in recipes it is a measure: "chaina lozhka soli", a teaspoon of salt. In a live sentence: “Додай чайну ложку меду” (Dodai chainu lozhku medu) — A teaspoon is for sugar. Written with the characters ч, а (a), й (y), н, а (a), л, о (o), ж (zh), к, а (a). A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | чайна ложка (chaina lozhka) |
| Read in Latin letters | chaina lozhka |
| Translation | teaspoon |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The little spoon differs only by its adjective, and in recipes it is a measure: "chaina lozhka soli", a teaspoon of salt.
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.
- Додай чайну ложку медуDodai chainu lozhku meduA teaspoon is for sugar
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 “teaspoon” in Ukrainian?
«чайна ложка» (chaina lozhka), read “chaina lozhka”. In a live sentence: “Додай чайну ложку меду” (Dodai chainu lozhku medu) — A teaspoon is for sugar. Noun, level A1; written with the characters ч, а (a), й (y), н, а (a), л, о (o), ж (zh), к, а (a).
How is “чайна ложка” (chaina lozhka) written in Latin letters?
chaina lozhka. 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 little spoon differs only by its adjective, and in recipes it is a measure: "chaina lozhka soli", a teaspoon of salt. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.