Lingoflyдві кави, будь ласка
- дві кави, будь ласкаdvi kavy, bud laskatwo coffees, please
“дві кави, будь ласка” (dvi kavy, bud laska) — two coffees, please in Ukrainian. Phrase, level A1. Kava is feminine, so the number takes its feminine shape: dvi, not dva. The gender of the drink matters here in a way English never shows. In a live sentence: “Дві кави, будь ласка, і воду” (Dvi kavy, bud laska, i vodu) — Two coffees, please, and a water.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | дві кави, будь ласка (dvi kavy, bud laska) |
| Read in Latin letters | dvi kavy, bud laska |
| Translation | two coffees, please |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Kava is feminine, so the number takes its feminine shape: dvi, not dva. The gender of the drink matters here in a way English never shows.
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 “two coffees, please” in Ukrainian?
«дві кави, будь ласка» (dvi kavy, bud laska), read “dvi kavy, bud laska”. In a live sentence: “Дві кави, будь ласка, і воду” (Dvi kavy, bud laska, i vodu) — Two coffees, please, and a water. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters д, в (v), і (i), к, а (a), в (v), и, б (b), у (U), д, ь, л…
How is “дві кави, будь ласка” (dvi kavy, bud laska) written in Latin letters?
dvi kavy, bud laska. 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?
Kava is feminine, so the number takes its feminine shape: dvi, not dva. The gender of the drink matters here in a way English never shows. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.