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- вартість доставкиvartist dostavkydelivery cost
“вартість доставки” (vartist dostavky) — delivery cost in Ukrainian. Noun, level B1. Vartist comes from vartyi, "to be worth" — cost is worth-ness. Free delivery is bezkostovna dostavka, a phrase every shop banner teaches. In a live sentence: “Вартість доставки — сто гривень” (Vartist dostavky — sto hryven) — The delivery cost is three euros. Written with the characters в (v), а (a), р, т, і (i), с, т, ь, д, о (o), с, т… A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | вартість доставки (vartist dostavky) |
| Read in Latin letters | vartist dostavky |
| Translation | delivery cost |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Vartist comes from vartyi, "to be worth" — cost is worth-ness. Free delivery is bezkostovna dostavka, a phrase every shop banner teaches.
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 “delivery cost” in Ukrainian?
«вартість доставки» (vartist dostavky), read “vartist dostavky”. In a live sentence: “Вартість доставки — сто гривень” (Vartist dostavky — sto hryven) — The delivery cost is three euros. Noun, level B1; written with the characters в (v), а (a), р, т, і (i), с, т, ь, д, о (o), с, т…
How is “вартість доставки” (vartist dostavky) written in Latin letters?
vartist dostavky. 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?
Vartist comes from vartyi, "to be worth" — cost is worth-ness. Free delivery is bezkostovna dostavka, a phrase every shop banner teaches. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.