Lingoflyзагальна кількість
- загальна кількістьzahalna kilkisttotal number
“загальна кількість” (zahalna kilkist) — total number in Ukrainian. Phrase, level A2. Zahalnyi means general in the sense of shared by all, from zahal, the whole company of people. English general will not substitute here. In a live sentence: “Загальна кількість учасників — сорок” (Zahalna kilkist uchasnykiv — sorok) — The total number of participants is forty. Written with the characters з (z), а (a), г, а (a), л, ь, н, а (a), к, і (i), л, ь… A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | загальна кількість (zahalna kilkist) |
| Read in Latin letters | zahalna kilkist |
| Translation | total number |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Zahalnyi means general in the sense of shared by all, from zahal, the whole company of people. English general will not substitute here.
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.
- Загальна кількість учасників — сорокZahalna kilkist uchasnykiv — sorokThe total number of participants is forty
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 “total number” in Ukrainian?
«загальна кількість» (zahalna kilkist), read “zahalna kilkist”. In a live sentence: “Загальна кількість учасників — сорок” (Zahalna kilkist uchasnykiv — sorok) — The total number of participants is forty. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters з (z), а (a), г, а (a), л, ь, н, а (a), к, і (i), л, ь…
How is “загальна кількість” (zahalna kilkist) written in Latin letters?
zahalna kilkist. 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?
Zahalnyi means general in the sense of shared by all, from zahal, the whole company of people. English general will not substitute here. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.