Lingoflyрахунок, будь ласка
- рахунок, будь ласкаrakhunok, bud laskathe bill, please
“рахунок, будь ласка” (rakhunok, bud laska) — the bill, please in Ukrainian. Phrase, level A1. Rakhunok is both the cafe bill and a bank account — one counting word for both. Stress on the u: rakhUnok. In a live sentence: “Рахунок, будь ласка, карткою” (Rakhunok, bud laska, kartkoiu) — The bill, please — I will pay by card. Written with the characters р, а (a), х, у (U), н, о (o), к, б (b), у (U), д, ь, л… A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | рахунок, будь ласка (rakhunok, bud laska) |
| Read in Latin letters | rakhunok, bud laska |
| Translation | the bill, please |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Rakhunok is both the cafe bill and a bank account — one counting word for both. Stress on the u: rakhUnok.
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.
- Рахунок, будь ласка, карткоюRakhunok, bud laska, kartkoiuThe bill, please — I will pay by card
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 “the bill, please” in Ukrainian?
«рахунок, будь ласка» (rakhunok, bud laska), read “rakhunok, bud laska”. In a live sentence: “Рахунок, будь ласка, карткою” (Rakhunok, bud laska, kartkoiu) — The bill, please — I will pay by card. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters р, а (a), х, у (U), н, о (o), к, б (b), у (U), д, ь, л…
How is “рахунок, будь ласка” (rakhunok, bud laska) written in Latin letters?
rakhunok, bud laska. 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?
Rakhunok is both the cafe bill and a bank account — one counting word for both. Stress on the u: rakhUnok. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.