тако је испало
“тако је испало” (tako je ispalo) — that is how it went in Serbian. Phrase, level B1. From ispasti, to come out, to turn out. The link je in the second place; add a pronoun and it slips in before it: tako mi je ispalo. In a live sentence: “Нисам хтео тако, али тако је испало” — I did not want it so, but that is how it went. You can hear how it sounds right here.
In short
| Written in Serbian | тако је испало |
| Read in Latin letters | tako je ispalo |
| Translation | that is how it went |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
- тако је испалоtako je ispalothat is how it went
Why it looks that way
From ispasti, to come out, to turn out. The link je in the second place; add a pronoun and it slips in before it: tako mi je ispalo.
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.
- Нисам хтео тако, али тако је испалоNisam hteo tako, ali tako je ispaloI did not want it so, but that is how it went
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 “that is how it went” in Serbian?
«тако је испало», read “tako je ispalo”. In a live sentence: “Нисам хтео тако, али тако је испало” — I did not want it so, but that is how it went. You can hear how it sounds right on this page. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters т, а, к, о, ј, е, и, с, п, а, л, о.
How is “тако је испало” written in Latin letters?
tako je ispalo. 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?
From ispasti, to come out, to turn out. The link je in the second place; add a pronoun and it slips in before it: tako mi je ispalo. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
Can I hear how it sounds?
Yes, right on this page: click the word and it will play. The sound works on any phone, and nothing needs to be installed.