Lingoflyідеться про
- ідеться проidetsia proit is about
“ідеться про” (idetsia pro) — it is about in Ukrainian. Phrase, level B1. Literally "it goes about", and what it is about goes in the "whom" form: idetsia pro pomylku. The verb only ever talks about speech — never about sleep, never about walking. In a live sentence: “Ідеться про минулий тиждень” (Idetsia pro mynulyi tyzhden) — It is about a small mistake in the letter. Written with the characters і (i), д, е, т, ь, с, я (ya), п, р, о (o).
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | ідеться про (idetsia pro) |
| Read in Latin letters | idetsia pro |
| Translation | it is about |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "it goes about", and what it is about goes in the "whom" form: idetsia pro pomylku. The verb only ever talks about speech — never about sleep, never about walking.
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.
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 “it is about” in Ukrainian?
«ідеться про» (idetsia pro), read “idetsia pro”. In a live sentence: “Ідеться про минулий тиждень” (Idetsia pro mynulyi tyzhden) — It is about a small mistake in the letter. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters і (i), д, е, т, ь, с, я (ya), п, р, о (o).
How is “ідеться про” (idetsia pro) written in Latin letters?
idetsia pro. 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?
Literally "it goes about", and what it is about goes in the "whom" form: idetsia pro pomylku. The verb only ever talks about speech — never about sleep, never about walking. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.