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- рахунок за телефонrakhunok za telefonphone bill
“рахунок за телефон” (rakhunok za telefon) — phone bill in Ukrainian. Noun, level A2. The same rakhunok works as the cafe check and the bank statement: one word covers what English splits in three. Za names what it is for. In a live sentence: “Рахунок за телефон приходить першого” (Rakhunok za telefon prykhodyt pershoho) — The phone bill arrives on the first.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | рахунок за телефон (rakhunok za telefon) |
| Read in Latin letters | rakhunok za telefon |
| Translation | phone bill |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
The same rakhunok works as the cafe check and the bank statement: one word covers what English splits in three. Za names what it is for.
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 за телефон приходить першогоRakhunok za telefon prykhodyt pershohoThe phone bill arrives on the first
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 “phone bill” in Ukrainian?
«рахунок за телефон» (rakhunok za telefon), read “rakhunok za telefon”. In a live sentence: “Рахунок за телефон приходить першого” (Rakhunok za telefon prykhodyt pershoho) — The phone bill arrives on the first. Noun, level A2; written with the characters р, а (a), х, у (U), н, о (o), к, з (z), а (a), т, е, л…
How is “рахунок за телефон” (rakhunok za telefon) written in Latin letters?
rakhunok za telefon. 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 same rakhunok works as the cafe check and the bank statement: one word covers what English splits in three. Za names what it is for. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.