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- приймати лікиpryimaty likyto take medicine
“приймати ліки” (pryimaty liky) — to take medicine in Ukrainian. Phrase, level A2. Liky is plural only, exactly like "money": the singular likarstvo is rare. A one-off is vizmy tabletku, "take a pill"; a course is pryimaty liky trychi na den, "three times a day". In a live sentence: “Приймати ліки треба після їжі” (Pryimaty liky treba pislia yizhi) — The doctor told me to take the medicine for a week. Written with the characters п, р, и, й (y), м, а (a), т, и, л, і (i), к, и.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | приймати ліки (pryimaty liky) |
| Read in Latin letters | pryimaty liky |
| Translation | to take medicine |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Liky is plural only, exactly like "money": the singular likarstvo is rare. A one-off is vizmy tabletku, "take a pill"; a course is pryimaty liky trychi na den, "three times a day".
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 take medicine” in Ukrainian?
«приймати ліки» (pryimaty liky), read “pryimaty liky”. In a live sentence: “Приймати ліки треба після їжі” (Pryimaty liky treba pislia yizhi) — The doctor told me to take the medicine for a week. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters п, р, и, й (y), м, а (a), т, и, л, і (i), к, и.
How is “приймати ліки” (pryimaty liky) written in Latin letters?
pryimaty liky. 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?
Liky is plural only, exactly like "money": the singular likarstvo is rare. A one-off is vizmy tabletku, "take a pill"; a course is pryimaty liky trychi na den, "three times a day". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.