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- пошукposhuksearch
“пошук” (poshuk) — search in Ukrainian. Noun, level A2. From "shukaty", to seek and look for — a solid everyday verb here. The search bar is a "riadok poshuku". In a live sentence: “Пошук нічого не знайшов” (Poshuk nichoho ne znaishov) — The search gives no results. Written with the characters п, о (o), ш, у (U), к. A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | пошук (poshuk) |
| Read in Latin letters | poshuk |
| Translation | search |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
From "shukaty", to seek and look for — a solid everyday verb here. The search bar is a "riadok poshuku".
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.
- Пошук нічого не знайшовPoshuk nichoho ne znaishovThe search gives no results
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 “search” in Ukrainian?
«пошук» (poshuk), read “poshuk”. In a live sentence: “Пошук нічого не знайшов” (Poshuk nichoho ne znaishov) — The search gives no results. Noun, level A2; written with the characters п, о (o), ш, у (U), к.
How is “пошук” (poshuk) written in Latin letters?
poshuk. 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?
From "shukaty", to seek and look for — a solid everyday verb here. The search bar is a "riadok poshuku". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.