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- оплата при отриманніoplata pry otrymannipayment on delivery
“оплата при отриманні” (oplata pry otrymanni) — payment on delivery in Ukrainian. Noun, level B1. Pry is the "at, upon" preposition and it takes the at-form after it — upon receipt, upon entry. The receipt-word is from "to receive". In a live sentence: “Оплата при отриманні можлива” (Oplata pry otrymanni mozhlyva) — Payment on delivery is possible. Written with the characters о (o), п, л, а (a), т, а (a), п, р, и, о (o), т, р… A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | оплата при отриманні (oplata pry otrymanni) |
| Read in Latin letters | oplata pry otrymanni |
| Translation | payment on delivery |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Pry is the "at, upon" preposition and it takes the at-form after it — upon receipt, upon entry. The receipt-word is from "to receive".
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.
- Оплата при отриманні можливаOplata pry otrymanni mozhlyvaPayment on delivery is possible
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 “payment on delivery” in Ukrainian?
«оплата при отриманні» (oplata pry otrymanni), read “oplata pry otrymanni”. In a live sentence: “Оплата при отриманні можлива” (Oplata pry otrymanni mozhlyva) — Payment on delivery is possible. Noun, level B1; written with the characters о (o), п, л, а (a), т, а (a), п, р, и, о (o), т, р…
How is “оплата при отриманні” (oplata pry otrymanni) written in Latin letters?
oplata pry otrymanni. 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?
Pry is the "at, upon" preposition and it takes the at-form after it — upon receipt, upon entry. The receipt-word is from "to receive". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.