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- сплатити рахунокsplatyty rakhunokto pay the bill
“сплатити рахунок” (splatyty rakhunok) — to pay the bill in Ukrainian. Phrase, level A2. Splatyty settles the bill in full, while plain platyty just pays along. The s- prefix marks that the paying is done, once and for good. In a live sentence: “Треба сплатити рахунок до пʼятниці” (Treba splatyty rakhunok do piatnytsi) — The bill needs to be paid by Friday. Written with the characters с, п, л, а (a), т, и, т, и, р, а (a), х, у (U)… A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | сплатити рахунок (splatyty rakhunok) |
| Read in Latin letters | splatyty rakhunok |
| Translation | to pay the bill |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Splatyty settles the bill in full, while plain platyty just pays along. The s- prefix marks that the paying is done, once and for good.
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.
- Треба сплатити рахунок до пʼятниціTreba splatyty rakhunok do piatnytsiThe bill needs to be paid by Friday
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 pay the bill” in Ukrainian?
«сплатити рахунок» (splatyty rakhunok), read “splatyty rakhunok”. In a live sentence: “Треба сплатити рахунок до пʼятниці” (Treba splatyty rakhunok do piatnytsi) — The bill needs to be paid by Friday. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters с, п, л, а (a), т, и, т, и, р, а (a), х, у (U)…
How is “сплатити рахунок” (splatyty rakhunok) written in Latin letters?
splatyty rakhunok. 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?
Splatyty settles the bill in full, while plain platyty just pays along. The s- prefix marks that the paying is done, once and for good. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.