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- провести пальцем по екрануprovesty paltsem po ekranuto swipe across the screen
“провести пальцем по екрану” (provesty paltsem po ekranu) — to swipe across the screen in Ukrainian. Phrase, level A1. The finger word palets drops its vowel in the instrumental: paltsem. The little po says across, and the screen keeps its plain e: ekran. In a live sentence: “Досить провести пальцем по екрану” (Dosyt provesty paltsem po ekranu) — Just swipe across the screen.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | провести пальцем по екрану (provesty paltsem po ekranu) |
| Read in Latin letters | provesty paltsem po ekranu |
| Translation | to swipe across the screen |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The finger word palets drops its vowel in the instrumental: paltsem. The little po says across, and the screen keeps its plain e: ekran.
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 swipe across the screen” in Ukrainian?
«провести пальцем по екрану» (provesty paltsem po ekranu), read “provesty paltsem po ekranu”. In a live sentence: “Досить провести пальцем по екрану” (Dosyt provesty paltsem po ekranu) — Just swipe across the screen. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters п, р, о (o), в (v), е, с, т, и, п, а (a), л, ь…
How is “провести пальцем по екрану” (provesty paltsem po ekranu) written in Latin letters?
provesty paltsem po ekranu. 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?
The finger word palets drops its vowel in the instrumental: paltsem. The little po says across, and the screen keeps its plain e: ekran. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.