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- номер у готеліnomer u hotelihotel room
“номер у готелі” (nomer u hoteli) — hotel room in Ukrainian. Noun, level A1. A room is a "number" here too — the word travelers already know from doors. Nomer na dvokh: a room for two. In a live sentence: “Я забронював номер у готелі” (Ya zabroniuvav nomer u hoteli) — The hotel room is for two. Written with the characters н, о (o), м, е, р, у (U), г, о (o), т, е, л, і (i). A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | номер у готелі (nomer u hoteli) |
| Read in Latin letters | nomer u hoteli |
| Translation | hotel room |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
A room is a "number" here too — the word travelers already know from doors. Nomer na dvokh: a room for two.
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 “hotel room” in Ukrainian?
«номер у готелі» (nomer u hoteli), read “nomer u hoteli”. In a live sentence: “Я забронював номер у готелі” (Ya zabroniuvav nomer u hoteli) — The hotel room is for two. Noun, level A1; written with the characters н, о (o), м, е, р, у (U), г, о (o), т, е, л, і (i).
How is “номер у готелі” (nomer u hoteli) written in Latin letters?
nomer u hoteli. 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?
A room is a "number" here too — the word travelers already know from doors. Nomer na dvokh: a room for two. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.