Lingoflyшвидка допомога
- швидка допомогаshvydka dopomohaambulance
“швидка допомога” (shvydka dopomoha) — ambulance in Ukrainian. Noun, level A2. Literally "quick help". The number is 103, and it also covers intensive care. In a live sentence: “Викличте швидку допомогу!” (Vyklychte shvydku dopomohu) — Call an ambulance! Written with the characters ш, в (v), и, д, к, а (a), д, о (o), п, о (o), м, о (o)… A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | швидка допомога (shvydka dopomoha) |
| Read in Latin letters | shvydka dopomoha |
| Translation | ambulance |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "quick help". The number is 103, and it also covers intensive care.
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.
- Викличте швидку допомогу!Vyklychte shvydku dopomohu!Call an ambulance!
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 “ambulance” in Ukrainian?
«швидка допомога» (shvydka dopomoha), read “shvydka dopomoha”. In a live sentence: “Викличте швидку допомогу!” (Vyklychte shvydku dopomohu) — Call an ambulance! Noun, level A2; written with the characters ш, в (v), и, д, к, а (a), д, о (o), п, о (o), м, о (o)…
How is “швидка допомога” (shvydka dopomoha) written in Latin letters?
shvydka dopomoha. 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?
Literally "quick help". The number is 103, and it also covers intensive care. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.