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- голосове повідомленняholosove povidomlenniavoice message
“голосове повідомлення” (holosove povidomlennia) — voice message in Ukrainian. Noun, level A2. Holos is voice, so this is literally a voice message. In casual chat people clip it to vois, borrowed from English, but write it out in full in careful Ukrainian. In a live sentence: “Надішли голосове повідомлення” (Nadishly holosove povidomlennia) — I sent you a voice message.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | голосове повідомлення (holosove povidomlennia) |
| Read in Latin letters | holosove povidomlennia |
| Translation | voice message |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Holos is voice, so this is literally a voice message. In casual chat people clip it to vois, borrowed from English, but write it out in full in careful Ukrainian.
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.
- Надішли голосове повідомленняNadishly holosove povidomlenniaI sent you a voice message
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 “voice message” in Ukrainian?
«голосове повідомлення» (holosove povidomlennia), read “holosove povidomlennia”. In a live sentence: “Надішли голосове повідомлення” (Nadishly holosove povidomlennia) — I sent you a voice message. Noun, level A2; written with the characters г, о (o), л, о (o), с, о (o), в (v), е, п, о (o), в (v), і (i)…
How is “голосове повідомлення” (holosove povidomlennia) written in Latin letters?
holosove povidomlennia. 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?
Holos is voice, so this is literally a voice message. In casual chat people clip it to vois, borrowed from English, but write it out in full in careful Ukrainian. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.