получаться
“получаться” (poluchatsya) — to work out, to succeed in Russian. Verb, level A1. The impersonal success verb: things "work out to you". U menya stalo poluchatsya — "it started working out for me". In a live sentence: “У меня стало получаться” — It has started working out for me. Written with the characters п, о, л, у, ч, а, т, ь, с, я. A word from the everyday Russian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Russian | получаться |
| Read in Latin letters | poluchatsya |
| Translation | to work out, to succeed |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The impersonal success verb: things "work out to you". U menya stalo poluchatsya — "it started working out for me".
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.
- У меня стало получатьсяU menya stalo poluchatsyaIt has started working out for me
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 work out, to succeed” in Russian?
«получаться», read “poluchatsya”. In a live sentence: “У меня стало получаться” — It has started working out for me. Verb, level A1; written with the characters п, о, л, у, ч, а, т, ь, с, я.
How is “получаться” written in Latin letters?
poluchatsya. 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 impersonal success verb: things "work out to you". U menya stalo poluchatsya — "it started working out for me". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.