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- відкрити подарунокvidkryty podarunokto open a present
“відкрити подарунок” (vidkryty podarunok) — to open a present in Ukrainian. Phrase, level A2. Podarunok, "present", comes from daruvaty, "to give as a gift". To wrap is zahornuty v papir, and the card that goes with it is listivka — literally "a little letter". In a live sentence: “Дітям кортить відкрити подарунок” (Ditiam kortyt vidkryty podarunok) — The children waited a long time to open the presents. Written with the characters в (v), і (i), д, к, р, и, т, и, п, о (o), д, а (a)…
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | відкрити подарунок (vidkryty podarunok) |
| Read in Latin letters | vidkryty podarunok |
| Translation | to open a present |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Podarunok, "present", comes from daruvaty, "to give as a gift". To wrap is zahornuty v papir, and the card that goes with it is listivka — literally "a little letter".
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.
- Дітям кортить відкрити подарунокDitiam kortyt vidkryty podarunokThe children waited a long time to open the presents
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 open a present” in Ukrainian?
«відкрити подарунок» (vidkryty podarunok), read “vidkryty podarunok”. In a live sentence: “Дітям кортить відкрити подарунок” (Ditiam kortyt vidkryty podarunok) — The children waited a long time to open the presents. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters в (v), і (i), д, к, р, и, т, и, п, о (o), д, а (a)…
How is “відкрити подарунок” (vidkryty podarunok) written in Latin letters?
vidkryty podarunok. 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?
Podarunok, "present", comes from daruvaty, "to give as a gift". To wrap is zahornuty v papir, and the card that goes with it is listivka — literally "a little letter". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.