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- головний геройholovnyi heroimain character
“головний герой” (holovnyi heroi) — main character in Ukrainian. Phrase, level A2. Heroi knyzhky, "the hero of the book", you have; holovnyi heroi stands opposite druhoriadnyi personazh, a minor character. The heroine is holovna heroinia. In a live sentence: “Головний герой мовчить до кінця” (Holovnyi heroi movchyt do kintsia) — The main character of the book is a little boy. Written with the characters г, о (o), л, о (o), в (v), н, и, й (y), г, е, р, о (o)… A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | головний герой (holovnyi heroi) |
| Read in Latin letters | holovnyi heroi |
| Translation | main character |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Heroi knyzhky, "the hero of the book", you have; holovnyi heroi stands opposite druhoriadnyi personazh, a minor character. The heroine is holovna heroinia.
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.
- Головний герой мовчить до кінцяHolovnyi heroi movchyt do kintsiaThe main character of the book is a little boy
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 “main character” in Ukrainian?
«головний герой» (holovnyi heroi), read “holovnyi heroi”. In a live sentence: “Головний герой мовчить до кінця” (Holovnyi heroi movchyt do kintsia) — The main character of the book is a little boy. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters г, о (o), л, о (o), в (v), н, и, й (y), г, е, р, о (o)…
How is “головний герой” (holovnyi heroi) written in Latin letters?
holovnyi heroi. 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?
Heroi knyzhky, "the hero of the book", you have; holovnyi heroi stands opposite druhoriadnyi personazh, a minor character. The heroine is holovna heroinia. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.