Lingoflyпульт від телевізора
- пульт від телевізораpult vid televizoraTV remote
“пульт від телевізора” (pult vid televizora) — TV remote in Ukrainian. Noun, level A1. The little vid does the work of "for": pult vid televizora, the remote of the TV. The of-form ends in a, not u, this time. In a live sentence: “Пульт від телевізора під диваном” (Pult vid televizora pid dyvanom) — The TV remote is under the sofa. Written with the characters п, у (U), л, ь, т, в (v), і (i), д, т, е, л, е… A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | пульт від телевізора (pult vid televizora) |
| Read in Latin letters | pult vid televizora |
| Translation | TV remote |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The little vid does the work of "for": pult vid televizora, the remote of the TV. The of-form ends in a, not u, this time.
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.
- Пульт від телевізора під диваномPult vid televizora pid dyvanomThe TV remote is under the sofa
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 “TV remote” in Ukrainian?
«пульт від телевізора» (pult vid televizora), read “pult vid televizora”. In a live sentence: “Пульт від телевізора під диваном” (Pult vid televizora pid dyvanom) — The TV remote is under the sofa. Noun, level A1; written with the characters п, у (U), л, ь, т, в (v), і (i), д, т, е, л, е…
How is “пульт від телевізора” (pult vid televizora) written in Latin letters?
pult vid televizora. 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 little vid does the work of "for": pult vid televizora, the remote of the TV. The of-form ends in a, not u, this time. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.