Lingoflyдуже приємно
- дуже приємноduzhe pryiemnonice to meet you
“дуже приємно” (duzhe pryiemno) — nice to meet you in Ukrainian. Phrase, level A0. Literally "very pleasant". Priyemno is "pleasant" — the whole phrase means "a great pleasure", said with a handshake. In a live sentence: “Дуже приємно! Я Оля” (Duzhe pryiemno! Ya Olia) — Nice to meet you! I am Olya. Written with the characters д, у (U), ж (zh), е, п, р, и, є (ye), м, н, о (o). A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A0.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | дуже приємно (duzhe pryiemno) |
| Read in Latin letters | duzhe pryiemno |
| Translation | nice to meet you |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A0 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "very pleasant". Priyemno is "pleasant" — the whole phrase means "a great pleasure", said with a handshake.
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 “nice to meet you” in Ukrainian?
«дуже приємно» (duzhe pryiemno), read “duzhe pryiemno”. In a live sentence: “Дуже приємно! Я Оля” (Duzhe pryiemno! Ya Olia) — Nice to meet you! I am Olya. Phrase, level A0; written with the characters д, у (U), ж (zh), е, п, р, и, є (ye), м, н, о (o).
How is “дуже приємно” (duzhe pryiemno) written in Latin letters?
duzhe pryiemno. 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?
Literally "very pleasant". Priyemno is "pleasant" — the whole phrase means "a great pleasure", said with a handshake. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.