Lingoflyстільки ж
- стільки жstilky zhjust as much
“стільки ж” (stilky zh) — just as much in Ukrainian. Phrase, level A2. Stilky zh, skilky — "as much... as". The zh is the "just" particle, written solid here, and a comma stands before skilky, exactly where you would pause. In a live sentence: “Мені потрібно стільки ж” (Meni potribno stilky zh) — The sister earns just as much as the brother. Written with the characters с, т, і (i), л, ь, к, и, ж (zh). A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | стільки ж (stilky zh) |
| Read in Latin letters | stilky zh |
| Translation | just as much |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Stilky zh, skilky — "as much... as". The zh is the "just" particle, written solid here, and a comma stands before skilky, exactly where you would pause.
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.
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 “just as much” in Ukrainian?
«стільки ж» (stilky zh), read “stilky zh”. In a live sentence: “Мені потрібно стільки ж” (Meni potribno stilky zh) — The sister earns just as much as the brother. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters с, т, і (i), л, ь, к, и, ж (zh).
How is “стільки ж” (stilky zh) written in Latin letters?
stilky zh. 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?
Stilky zh, skilky — "as much... as". The zh is the "just" particle, written solid here, and a comma stands before skilky, exactly where you would pause. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.