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- роздрукуватиrozdrukuvatyto print out
“роздрукувати” (rozdrukuvaty) — to print out in Ukrainian. Verb, level A2. From driuk, "print": printing out is roz-driuk-uvaty. The printer is a printer; typing on a keyboard is nabyraty — one English verb "print" does two jobs, Ukrainian uses two. In a live sentence: “Роздрукуйте два примірники” (Rozdrukuite dva prymirnyky) — Print this page out, please. Written with the characters р, о (o), з (z), д, р, у (U), к, у (U), в (v), а (a), т, и. A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | роздрукувати (rozdrukuvaty) |
| Read in Latin letters | rozdrukuvaty |
| Translation | to print out |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
From driuk, "print": printing out is roz-driuk-uvaty. The printer is a printer; typing on a keyboard is nabyraty — one English verb "print" does two jobs, Ukrainian uses two.
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 print out” in Ukrainian?
«роздрукувати» (rozdrukuvaty), read “rozdrukuvaty”. In a live sentence: “Роздрукуйте два примірники” (Rozdrukuite dva prymirnyky) — Print this page out, please. Verb, level A2; written with the characters р, о (o), з (z), д, р, у (U), к, у (U), в (v), а (a), т, и.
How is “роздрукувати” (rozdrukuvaty) written in Latin letters?
rozdrukuvaty. 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 driuk, "print": printing out is roz-driuk-uvaty. The printer is a printer; typing on a keyboard is nabyraty — one English verb "print" does two jobs, Ukrainian uses two. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.