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- лайкlaiklike (social media)
“лайк” (laik) — like (social media) in Ukrainian. Noun, level A2. Written in the local alphabet and declined like any noun: dva laiky, bez laikiv. To give one is postavyty laik — the like gets "stood up". In a live sentence: “Пост зібрав сто лайків” (Post zibrav sto laikiv) — The post collected a hundred likes. Written with the characters л, а (a), й (y), к. A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | лайк (laik) |
| Read in Latin letters | laik |
| Translation | like (social media) |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Written in the local alphabet and declined like any noun: dva laiky, bez laikiv. To give one is postavyty laik — the like gets "stood up".
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 “like (social media)” in Ukrainian?
«лайк» (laik), read “laik”. In a live sentence: “Пост зібрав сто лайків” (Post zibrav sto laikiv) — The post collected a hundred likes. Noun, level A2; written with the characters л, а (a), й (y), к.
How is “лайк” (laik) written in Latin letters?
laik. 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?
Written in the local alphabet and declined like any noun: dva laiky, bez laikiv. To give one is postavyty laik — the like gets "stood up". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.