Lingoflyгучний звук
- гучний звукhuchnyi zvukloud sound
“гучний звук” (huchnyi zvuk) — loud sound in Ukrainian. Noun, level A1. Huchnist is the word on the volume button of your phone — here it is again as an adjective. Shum is noise, holos is voice: three distinct words. In a live sentence: “Знадвору долинув гучний звук” (Znadvoru dolynuv huchnyi zvuk) — I heard a loud sound outside. Written with the characters г, у (U), ч, н, и, й (y), з (z), в (v), у (U), к. A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | гучний звук (huchnyi zvuk) |
| Read in Latin letters | huchnyi zvuk |
| Translation | loud sound |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Huchnist is the word on the volume button of your phone — here it is again as an adjective. Shum is noise, holos is voice: three distinct words.
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.
- Знадвору долинув гучний звукZnadvoru dolynuv huchnyi zvukI heard a loud sound outside
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 “loud sound” in Ukrainian?
«гучний звук» (huchnyi zvuk), read “huchnyi zvuk”. In a live sentence: “Знадвору долинув гучний звук” (Znadvoru dolynuv huchnyi zvuk) — I heard a loud sound outside. Noun, level A1; written with the characters г, у (U), ч, н, и, й (y), з (z), в (v), у (U), к.
How is “гучний звук” (huchnyi zvuk) written in Latin letters?
huchnyi zvuk. 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?
Huchnist is the word on the volume button of your phone — here it is again as an adjective. Shum is noise, holos is voice: three distinct words. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.