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- водити машинуvodyty mashynuto drive a car
“водити машину” (vodyty mashynu) — to drive a car in Ukrainian. Phrase, level A2. Vodyty means to drive and to give rides: vodytyditei do shkoly — drive the kids to school. Riding as a passenger is a different motion verb entirely: ikhaty. In a live sentence: “Я навчився водити машину торік” (Ya navchyvsia vodyty mashynu torik) — I learned to drive at eighteen. Written with the characters в (v), о (o), д, и, т, и, м, а (a), ш, и, н, у (U).
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | водити машину (vodyty mashynu) |
| Read in Latin letters | vodyty mashynu |
| Translation | to drive a car |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Vodyty means to drive and to give rides: vodytyditei do shkoly — drive the kids to school. Riding as a passenger is a different motion verb entirely: ikhaty.
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 “to drive a car” in Ukrainian?
«водити машину» (vodyty mashynu), read “vodyty mashynu”. In a live sentence: “Я навчився водити машину торік” (Ya navchyvsia vodyty mashynu torik) — I learned to drive at eighteen. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters в (v), о (o), д, и, т, и, м, а (a), ш, и, н, у (U).
How is “водити машину” (vodyty mashynu) written in Latin letters?
vodyty mashynu. 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?
Vodyty means to drive and to give rides: vodytyditei do shkoly — drive the kids to school. Riding as a passenger is a different motion verb entirely: ikhaty. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.