Lingoflyоплата готівкою
- оплата готівкоюoplata hotivkoiucash payment
“оплата готівкою” (oplata hotivkoiu) — cash payment in Ukrainian. Noun, level A2. Hotivka is cash, the everyday word for it. The by-means form does the paying: platiat hotivkoiu, they pay by cash. The shop asks it short: hotivkoiu chy kartkoiu? In a live sentence: “Оплата готівкою тут не приймається” (Oplata hotivkoiu tut ne pryimaietsia) — Payment by cash or by card?
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | оплата готівкою (oplata hotivkoiu) |
| Read in Latin letters | oplata hotivkoiu |
| Translation | cash payment |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Hotivka is cash, the everyday word for it. The by-means form does the paying: platiat hotivkoiu, they pay by cash. The shop asks it short: hotivkoiu chy kartkoiu?
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 “cash payment” in Ukrainian?
«оплата готівкою» (oplata hotivkoiu), read “oplata hotivkoiu”. In a live sentence: “Оплата готівкою тут не приймається” (Oplata hotivkoiu tut ne pryimaietsia) — Payment by cash or by card? Noun, level A2; written with the characters о (o), п, л, а (a), т, а (a), г, о (o), т, і (i), в (v), к…
How is “оплата готівкою” (oplata hotivkoiu) written in Latin letters?
oplata hotivkoiu. 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?
Hotivka is cash, the everyday word for it. The by-means form does the paying: platiat hotivkoiu, they pay by cash. The shop asks it short: hotivkoiu chy kartkoiu? A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.