Lingoflyяк це називається?
- як це називається?yak tse nazyvaietsia?what is it called?
“як це називається?” (yak tse nazyvaietsia?) — what is it called? in Ukrainian. Phrase, level A2. The single most useful question you own: point at a thing, ask this, and the word is yours. Built on "to name" with the reflexive tail. In a live sentence: “Скажіть, як це називається?” (Skazhit, yak tse nazyvaietsia) — Tell me, what is it called?
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | як це називається? (yak tse nazyvaietsia) |
| Read in Latin letters | yak tse nazyvaietsia? |
| Translation | what is it called? |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
The single most useful question you own: point at a thing, ask this, and the word is yours. Built on "to name" with the reflexive tail.
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.
- Скажіть, як це називається?Skazhit, yak tse nazyvaietsia?Tell me, what is it called?
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 “what is it called?” in Ukrainian?
«як це називається?» (yak tse nazyvaietsia), read “yak tse nazyvaietsia?” In a live sentence: “Скажіть, як це називається?” (Skazhit, yak tse nazyvaietsia) — Tell me, what is it called? Phrase, level A2; written with the characters я (ya), к, ц, е, н, а (a), з (z), и, в (v), а (a), є (ye), т…
How is “як це називається?” (yak tse nazyvaietsia) written in Latin letters?
yak tse nazyvaietsia? 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 single most useful question you own: point at a thing, ask this, and the word is yours. Built on "to name" with the reflexive tail. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.