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- шукати по кишеняхshukaty po kysheniakhto search your pockets
“шукати по кишенях” (shukaty po kysheniakh) — to search your pockets in Ukrainian. Verb, level A1. Kyshenia is the pocket word, and after po it wears its about-plural ending: po kysheniakh. Shukaty is the everyday verb for hunting things. In a live sentence: “Він почав шукати по кишенях дрібні” (Vin pochav shukaty po kysheniakh dribni) — He started searching his pockets for change.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | шукати по кишенях (shukaty po kysheniakh) |
| Read in Latin letters | shukaty po kysheniakh |
| Translation | to search your pockets |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Kyshenia is the pocket word, and after po it wears its about-plural ending: po kysheniakh. Shukaty is the everyday verb for hunting things.
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.
- Він почав шукати по кишенях дрібніVin pochav shukaty po kysheniakh dribniHe started searching his pockets for change
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 search your pockets” in Ukrainian?
«шукати по кишенях» (shukaty po kysheniakh), read “shukaty po kysheniakh”. In a live sentence: “Він почав шукати по кишенях дрібні” (Vin pochav shukaty po kysheniakh dribni) — He started searching his pockets for change. Verb, level A1; written with the characters ш, у (U), к, а (a), т, и, п, о (o), к, и, ш, е…
How is “шукати по кишенях” (shukaty po kysheniakh) written in Latin letters?
shukaty po kysheniakh. 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?
Kyshenia is the pocket word, and after po it wears its about-plural ending: po kysheniakh. Shukaty is the everyday verb for hunting things. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.