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- передай привітperedai pryvitgive my regards
“передай привіт” (peredai pryvit) — give my regards in Ukrainian. Phrase, level B1. Literally "pass my hello": the greeting, handed over. The recipient goes into the to-form — pass the hello TO mum. In a live sentence: “Передай привіт батькам” (Peredai pryvit batkam) — Give my regards to your parents. Written with the characters п, е, р, е, д, а (a), й (y), п, р, и, в (v), і (i)… A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | передай привіт (peredai pryvit) |
| Read in Latin letters | peredai pryvit |
| Translation | give my regards |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "pass my hello": the greeting, handed over. The recipient goes into the to-form — pass the hello TO mum.
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.
- Передай привіт батькамPeredai pryvit batkamGive my regards to your parents
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 “give my regards” in Ukrainian?
«передай привіт» (peredai pryvit), read “peredai pryvit”. In a live sentence: “Передай привіт батькам” (Peredai pryvit batkam) — Give my regards to your parents. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters п, е, р, е, д, а (a), й (y), п, р, и, в (v), і (i)…
How is “передай привіт” (peredai pryvit) written in Latin letters?
peredai pryvit. 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?
Literally "pass my hello": the greeting, handed over. The recipient goes into the to-form — pass the hello TO mum. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.