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- грати на піаніноhraty na pianinoto play the piano
“грати на піаніно” (hraty na pianino) — to play the piano in Ukrainian. Phrase, level A1. Hraty is to play, but hratysia with the little -sia means to amuse yourself — keep them apart. Pianino never bends. In a live sentence: “Вона вчиться грати на піаніно” (Vona vchytsia hraty na pianino) — She is learning to play the piano. Written with the characters г, р, а (a), т, и, н, а (a), п, і (i), а (a), н, і (i)… A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | грати на піаніно (hraty na pianino) |
| Read in Latin letters | hraty na pianino |
| Translation | to play the piano |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Hraty is to play, but hratysia with the little -sia means to amuse yourself — keep them apart. Pianino never bends.
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 play the piano” in Ukrainian?
«грати на піаніно» (hraty na pianino), read “hraty na pianino”. In a live sentence: “Вона вчиться грати на піаніно” (Vona vchytsia hraty na pianino) — She is learning to play the piano. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters г, р, а (a), т, и, н, а (a), п, і (i), а (a), н, і (i)…
How is “грати на піаніно” (hraty na pianino) written in Latin letters?
hraty na pianino. 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?
Hraty is to play, but hratysia with the little -sia means to amuse yourself — keep them apart. Pianino never bends. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.