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- як то кажутьyak to kazhutas the saying goes
“як то кажуть” (yak to kazhut) — as the saying goes in Ukrainian. Phrase, level B1. The little to parked in the middle is the storyteller's flourish before a proverb. Plain kazhut, shcho simply reports what people say. In a live sentence: “Як то кажуть, поспішиш — людей насмішиш” (Yak to kazhut, pospishysh — liudei nasmishysh) — As the saying goes, make haste and you will be the joke. Written with the characters я (ya), к, т, о (o), к, а (a), ж (zh), у (U), т, ь.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | як то кажуть (yak to kazhut) |
| Read in Latin letters | yak to kazhut |
| Translation | as the saying goes |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
The little to parked in the middle is the storyteller's flourish before a proverb. Plain kazhut, shcho simply reports what people say.
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.
- Як то кажуть, поспішиш — людей насмішишYak to kazhut, pospishysh — liudei nasmishyshAs the saying goes, make haste and you will be the joke
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 “as the saying goes” in Ukrainian?
«як то кажуть» (yak to kazhut), read “yak to kazhut”. In a live sentence: “Як то кажуть, поспішиш — людей насмішиш” (Yak to kazhut, pospishysh — liudei nasmishysh) — As the saying goes, make haste and you will be the joke. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters я (ya), к, т, о (o), к, а (a), ж (zh), у (U), т, ь.
How is “як то кажуть” (yak to kazhut) written in Latin letters?
yak to kazhut. 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?
The little to parked in the middle is the storyteller's flourish before a proverb. Plain kazhut, shcho simply reports what people say. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.