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- шкіркаshkirkapeel (fruit skin)
“шкірка” (shkirka) — peel (fruit skin) in Ukrainian. Noun, level A1. The diminutive of "shkira", skin or hide. The fruit peel is the skin's little cousin. I eat the apple with the peel. In a live sentence: “Шкірку з картоплі зріж тонко” (Shkirku z kartopli zrizh tonko) — I eat the apple with the peel. Written with the characters ш, к, і (i), р, к, а (a). A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | шкірка (shkirka) |
| Read in Latin letters | shkirka |
| Translation | peel (fruit skin) |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The diminutive of "shkira", skin or hide. The fruit peel is the skin's little cousin. I eat the apple with the peel.
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.
- Шкірку з картоплі зріж тонкоShkirku z kartopli zrizh tonkoI eat the apple with the peel
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 “peel (fruit skin)” in Ukrainian?
«шкірка» (shkirka), read “shkirka”. In a live sentence: “Шкірку з картоплі зріж тонко” (Shkirku z kartopli zrizh tonko) — I eat the apple with the peel. Noun, level A1; written with the characters ш, к, і (i), р, к, а (a).
How is “шкірка” (shkirka) written in Latin letters?
shkirka. 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 diminutive of "shkira", skin or hide. The fruit peel is the skin's little cousin. I eat the apple with the peel. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.