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- поставитиpostavytyto put down
“поставити” (postavyty) — to put down in Ukrainian. Verb, level A2. To put down what you were holding: postav sumku na pidlohu — "put the bag on the floor". From stavyty, "to place"; the prefix only changes the aspect. In a live sentence: “Поставте чашку на стіл” (Postavte chashku na stil) — Put the bag on the chair and sit down. Written with the characters п, о (o), с, т, а (a), в (v), и, т, и. A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | поставити (postavyty) |
| Read in Latin letters | postavyty |
| Translation | to put down |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
To put down what you were holding: postav sumku na pidlohu — "put the bag on the floor". From stavyty, "to place"; the prefix only changes the aspect.
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 put down” in Ukrainian?
«поставити» (postavyty), read “postavyty”. In a live sentence: “Поставте чашку на стіл” (Postavte chashku na stil) — Put the bag on the chair and sit down. Verb, level A2; written with the characters п, о (o), с, т, а (a), в (v), и, т, и.
How is “поставити” (postavyty) written in Latin letters?
postavyty. 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 put down what you were holding: postav sumku na pidlohu — "put the bag on the floor". From stavyty, "to place"; the prefix only changes the aspect. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.