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- підійтиpidiityto come up
“підійти” (pidiity) — to come up in Ukrainian. Verb, level A2. To a person or a counter: pidiity do vikna, do plus the "of" form — "come up to the window". "It suits me" is pasuvaty, a completely different verb despite the feel. In a live sentence: “Можна підійти ближче?” (Mozhna pidiity blyzhche) — He came up to the window and asked about a ticket. Written with the characters п, і (i), д, і (i), й (y), т, и. A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | підійти (pidiity) |
| Read in Latin letters | pidiity |
| Translation | to come up |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
To a person or a counter: pidiity do vikna, do plus the "of" form — "come up to the window". "It suits me" is pasuvaty, a completely different verb despite the feel.
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 “to come up” in Ukrainian?
«підійти» (pidiity), read “pidiity”. In a live sentence: “Можна підійти ближче?” (Mozhna pidiity blyzhche) — He came up to the window and asked about a ticket. Verb, level A2; written with the characters п, і (i), д, і (i), й (y), т, и.
How is “підійти” (pidiity) written in Latin letters?
pidiity. 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?
To a person or a counter: pidiity do vikna, do plus the "of" form — "come up to the window". "It suits me" is pasuvaty, a completely different verb despite the feel. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.