Lingoflyскакалка
- скакалкаskakalkajump rope
“скакалка” (skakalka) — jump rope in Ukrainian. Noun, level A2. From skakaty, "to leap" — the same build as the English word, and just as childish: one hundred jumps is the everyday warm-up. In a live sentence: “Скакалка — найдешевший тренажер” (Skakalka — naideshevshyi trenazher) — A hundred jumps on the rope is a daily warm-up. Written with the characters с, к, а (a), к, а (a), л, к, а (a). A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | скакалка (skakalka) |
| Read in Latin letters | skakalka |
| Translation | jump rope |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
From skakaty, "to leap" — the same build as the English word, and just as childish: one hundred jumps is the everyday warm-up.
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.
- Скакалка — найдешевший тренажерSkakalka — naideshevshyi trenazherA hundred jumps on the rope is a daily warm-up
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 “jump rope” in Ukrainian?
«скакалка» (skakalka), read “skakalka”. In a live sentence: “Скакалка — найдешевший тренажер” (Skakalka — naideshevshyi trenazher) — A hundred jumps on the rope is a daily warm-up. Noun, level A2; written with the characters с, к, а (a), к, а (a), л, к, а (a).
How is “скакалка” (skakalka) written in Latin letters?
skakalka. 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 skakaty, "to leap" — the same build as the English word, and just as childish: one hundred jumps is the everyday warm-up. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.