Lingoflyвступити до університету
- вступити до університетуvstupyty do universytetuto enroll in a university
“вступити до університету” (vstupyty do universytetu) — to enroll in a university in Ukrainian. Phrase, level B1. To enroll is literally to enter: vstupyty, with entry exams called vstupni ispyty beside it. The helper do takes the of-form: do universytetu, do likarni. In a live sentence: “Вона мріє вступити до університету” (Vona mriie vstupyty do universytetu) — He wants to enroll in a university.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | вступити до університету (vstupyty do universytetu) |
| Read in Latin letters | vstupyty do universytetu |
| Translation | to enroll in a university |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
To enroll is literally to enter: vstupyty, with entry exams called vstupni ispyty beside it. The helper do takes the of-form: do universytetu, do likarni.
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.
- Вона мріє вступити до університетуVona mriie vstupyty do universytetuHe wants to enroll in a university
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 enroll in a university” in Ukrainian?
«вступити до університету» (vstupyty do universytetu), read “vstupyty do universytetu”. In a live sentence: “Вона мріє вступити до університету” (Vona mriie vstupyty do universytetu) — He wants to enroll in a university. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters в (v), с, т, у (U), п, и, т, и, д, о (o), у (U), н…
How is “вступити до університету” (vstupyty do universytetu) written in Latin letters?
vstupyty do universytetu. 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?
To enroll is literally to enter: vstupyty, with entry exams called vstupni ispyty beside it. The helper do takes the of-form: do universytetu, do likarni. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.