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- давай завтраdavai zavtrahow about tomorrow
“давай завтра” (davai zavtra) — how about tomorrow in Ukrainian. Phrase, level A1. Davai is the all-purpose "let us" — with a group it becomes davaite. The perfect phrase for postponing politely. In a live sentence: “Сьогодні не встигну, давай завтра” (Sohodni ne vstyhnu, davai zavtra) — I cannot today, how about tomorrow. Written with the characters д, а (a), в (v), а (a), й (y), з (z), а (a), в (v), т, р, а (a). A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | давай завтра (davai zavtra) |
| Read in Latin letters | davai zavtra |
| Translation | how about tomorrow |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Davai is the all-purpose "let us" — with a group it becomes davaite. The perfect phrase for postponing politely.
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 “how about tomorrow” in Ukrainian?
«давай завтра» (davai zavtra), read “davai zavtra”. In a live sentence: “Сьогодні не встигну, давай завтра” (Sohodni ne vstyhnu, davai zavtra) — I cannot today, how about tomorrow. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters д, а (a), в (v), а (a), й (y), з (z), а (a), в (v), т, р, а (a).
How is “давай завтра” (davai zavtra) written in Latin letters?
davai zavtra. 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?
Davai is the all-purpose "let us" — with a group it becomes davaite. The perfect phrase for postponing politely. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.