Lingoflyбільше такого не повториться
- більше такого не повторитьсяbilshe takoho ne povtorytsianothing like this will happen again
“більше такого не повториться” (bilshe takoho ne povtorytsia) — nothing like this will happen again in Ukrainian. Phrase, level B1. The reflexive ending takes no soft sign before it: povtorytsia, written solid. One rule covers every verb of this shape. In a live sentence: “Обіцяю, більше такого не повториться” (Obitsiaiu, bilshe takoho ne povtorytsia) — I promise, nothing like this will happen again.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | більше такого не повториться (bilshe takoho ne povtorytsia) |
| Read in Latin letters | bilshe takoho ne povtorytsia |
| Translation | nothing like this will happen again |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
The reflexive ending takes no soft sign before it: povtorytsia, written solid. One rule covers every verb of this shape.
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.
- Обіцяю, більше такого не повторитьсяObitsiaiu, bilshe takoho ne povtorytsiaI promise, nothing like this will happen again
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 “nothing like this will happen again” in Ukrainian?
«більше такого не повториться» (bilshe takoho ne povtorytsia), read “bilshe takoho ne povtorytsia”. In a live sentence: “Обіцяю, більше такого не повториться” (Obitsiaiu, bilshe takoho ne povtorytsia) — I promise, nothing like this will happen again. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters б (b), і (i), л, ь, ш, е, т, а (a), к, о (o), г, о (o)…
How is “більше такого не повториться” (bilshe takoho ne povtorytsia) written in Latin letters?
bilshe takoho ne povtorytsia. 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 reflexive ending takes no soft sign before it: povtorytsia, written solid. One rule covers every verb of this shape. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.