Lingoflyдовести до ладу
- довести до ладуdovesty do laduto bring to completion
“довести до ладу” (dovesty do ladu) — to bring to completion in Ukrainian. Phrase, level B1. The language brings things not to mind but to lad — order, the way parts fit. The same lad lives inside nalagodyty, to set right. In a live sentence: “Проєкт треба довести до ладу” (Proiekt treba dovesty do ladu) — The project has to be brought to completion.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | довести до ладу (dovesty do ladu) |
| Read in Latin letters | dovesty do ladu |
| Translation | to bring to completion |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
The language brings things not to mind but to lad — order, the way parts fit. The same lad lives inside nalagodyty, to set right.
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 bring to completion” in Ukrainian?
«довести до ладу» (dovesty do ladu), read “dovesty do ladu”. In a live sentence: “Проєкт треба довести до ладу” (Proiekt treba dovesty do ladu) — The project has to be brought to completion. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters д, о (o), в (v), е, с, т, и, д, о (o), л, а (a), д…
How is “довести до ладу” (dovesty do ladu) written in Latin letters?
dovesty do ladu. 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 language brings things not to mind but to lad — order, the way parts fit. The same lad lives inside nalagodyty, to set right. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.