Lingoflyпримірочна
- примірочнаprymirochnafitting room
“примірочна” (prymirochna) — fitting room in Ukrainian. Noun, level A2. From "miryaty", "to measure" — the room where you measure things on yourself. In the store: "Prymirochna tam". In a live sentence: “Де у вас примірочна?” (De u vas prymirochna) — Where is the fitting room? Written with the characters п, р, и, м, і (i), р, о (o), ч, н, а (a). A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | примірочна (prymirochna) |
| Read in Latin letters | prymirochna |
| Translation | fitting room |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
From "miryaty", "to measure" — the room where you measure things on yourself. In the store: "Prymirochna tam".
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 “fitting room” in Ukrainian?
«примірочна» (prymirochna), read “prymirochna”. In a live sentence: “Де у вас примірочна?” (De u vas prymirochna) — Where is the fitting room? Noun, level A2; written with the characters п, р, и, м, і (i), р, о (o), ч, н, а (a).
How is “примірочна” (prymirochna) written in Latin letters?
prymirochna. 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 "miryaty", "to measure" — the room where you measure things on yourself. In the store: "Prymirochna tam". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.