Lingoflyприймальне відділення
- приймальне відділенняpryimalne viddilenniaemergency room
“приймальне відділення” (pryimalne viddilennia) — emergency room in Ukrainian. Noun, level A1. From pryimaty, to receive: the department that receives the sick. Locals name it a department, not a chamber — viddilennia does the work. In a live sentence: “Приймальне відділення на першому поверсі” (Pryimalne viddilennia na pershomu poversi) — The emergency room is on the first floor. Written with the characters п, р, и, й (y), м, а (a), л, ь, н, е, в (v), і (i)… A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | приймальне відділення (pryimalne viddilennia) |
| Read in Latin letters | pryimalne viddilennia |
| Translation | emergency room |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
From pryimaty, to receive: the department that receives the sick. Locals name it a department, not a chamber — viddilennia does the work.
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.
- Приймальне відділення на першому поверсіPryimalne viddilennia na pershomu poversiThe emergency room is on the first floor
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 “emergency room” in Ukrainian?
«приймальне відділення» (pryimalne viddilennia), read “pryimalne viddilennia”. In a live sentence: “Приймальне відділення на першому поверсі” (Pryimalne viddilennia na pershomu poversi) — The emergency room is on the first floor. Noun, level A1; written with the characters п, р, и, й (y), м, а (a), л, ь, н, е, в (v), і (i)…
How is “приймальне відділення” (pryimalne viddilennia) written in Latin letters?
pryimalne viddilennia. 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 pryimaty, to receive: the department that receives the sick. Locals name it a department, not a chamber — viddilennia does the work. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.