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“плоский” (ploskyi) — flat in Ukrainian. Adjective, level B1. Ploskyi ekran, ploskyi kamin — a flat screen, a flat stone. Smooth to the touch is hladkyi, a different word: flatness is about lying even, smoothness about how it feels. In a live sentence: “Плоский камінь добре лежить” (Ploskyi kamin dobre lezhyt) — The new television is thin and flat. Written with the characters п, л, о (o), с, к, и, й (y). A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | плоский (ploskyi) |
| Read in Latin letters | ploskyi |
| Translation | flat |
| Part of speech | adjective |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Ploskyi ekran, ploskyi kamin — a flat screen, a flat stone. Smooth to the touch is hladkyi, a different word: flatness is about lying even, smoothness about how it feels.
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 “flat” in Ukrainian?
«плоский» (ploskyi), read “ploskyi”. In a live sentence: “Плоский камінь добре лежить” (Ploskyi kamin dobre lezhyt) — The new television is thin and flat. Adjective, level B1; written with the characters п, л, о (o), с, к, и, й (y).
How is “плоский” (ploskyi) written in Latin letters?
ploskyi. 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?
Ploskyi ekran, ploskyi kamin — a flat screen, a flat stone. Smooth to the touch is hladkyi, a different word: flatness is about lying even, smoothness about how it feels. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.