Lingoflyпоставити на зарядку
- поставити на зарядкуpostavyty na zariadkuto put on the charger
“поставити на зарядку” (postavyty na zariadku) — to put on the charger in Ukrainian. Phrase, level A1. Zariadka covers the charging and the morning workout alike — context decides. The charger brick is zariadnyi prystrii, the charging device. In a live sentence: “Не забудь поставити на зарядку” (Ne zabud postavyty na zariadku) — Do not forget to put it on the charger.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | поставити на зарядку (postavyty na zariadku) |
| Read in Latin letters | postavyty na zariadku |
| Translation | to put on the charger |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Zariadka covers the charging and the morning workout alike — context decides. The charger brick is zariadnyi prystrii, the charging device.
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.
- Не забудь поставити на зарядкуNe zabud postavyty na zariadkuDo not forget to put it on the charger
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 put on the charger” in Ukrainian?
«поставити на зарядку» (postavyty na zariadku), read “postavyty na zariadku”. In a live sentence: “Не забудь поставити на зарядку” (Ne zabud postavyty na zariadku) — Do not forget to put it on the charger. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters п, о (o), с, т, а (a), в (v), и, т, и, н, а (a), з (z)…
How is “поставити на зарядку” (postavyty na zariadku) written in Latin letters?
postavyty na zariadku. 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?
Zariadka covers the charging and the morning workout alike — context decides. The charger brick is zariadnyi prystrii, the charging device. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.