Lingoflyпокажіть на карті
- покажіть на картіpokazhit na kartishow me on the map
“покажіть на карті” (pokazhit na karti) — show me on the map in Ukrainian. Phrase, level A2. A map is a karta; a ticket is a kvytok — do not swap them. Show me on the map where we are — the traveler's universal lifeline, three words long. In a live sentence: “Покажіть на карті, будь ласка” (Pokazhit na karti, bud laska) — Show me on the map where we are.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | покажіть на карті (pokazhit na karti) |
| Read in Latin letters | pokazhit na karti |
| Translation | show me on the map |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
A map is a karta; a ticket is a kvytok — do not swap them. Show me on the map where we are — the traveler's universal lifeline, three words long.
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 “show me on the map” in Ukrainian?
«покажіть на карті» (pokazhit na karti), read “pokazhit na karti”. In a live sentence: “Покажіть на карті, будь ласка” (Pokazhit na karti, bud laska) — Show me on the map where we are. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters п, о (o), к, а (a), ж (zh), і (i), т, ь, н, а (a), к, а (a)…
How is “покажіть на карті” (pokazhit na karti) written in Latin letters?
pokazhit na karti. 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?
A map is a karta; a ticket is a kvytok — do not swap them. Show me on the map where we are — the traveler's universal lifeline, three words long. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.