Lingoflyперестати спілкуватися
- перестати спілкуватисяperestaty spilkuvatysiato stop talking to each other
“перестати спілкуватися” (perestaty spilkuvatysia) — to stop talking to each other in Ukrainian. Phrase, level B1. Spilkuvatysia, "to communicate", comes from spilnyi, "shared" — communication is a shared thing. Perestaty works like "stop" before a verb, no surprises. In a live sentence: “Після сварки вони перестали спілкуватися” (Pislia svarky vony perestaly spilkuvatysia) — After the quarrel they stopped talking to each other. Written with the characters п, е, р, е, с, т, а (a), т, и, с, п, і (i)… A word from the everyday Ukrainian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | перестати спілкуватися (perestaty spilkuvatysia) |
| Read in Latin letters | perestaty spilkuvatysia |
| Translation | to stop talking to each other |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Spilkuvatysia, "to communicate", comes from spilnyi, "shared" — communication is a shared thing. Perestaty works like "stop" before a verb, no surprises.
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.
- Pislia svarky vony perestaly spilkuvatysiaAfter the quarrel they stopped talking to each other
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 stop talking to each other” in Ukrainian?
«перестати спілкуватися» (perestaty spilkuvatysia), read “perestaty spilkuvatysia”. In a live sentence: “Після сварки вони перестали спілкуватися” (Pislia svarky vony perestaly spilkuvatysia) — After the quarrel they stopped talking to each other. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters п, е, р, е, с, т, а (a), т, и, с, п, і (i)…
How is “перестати спілкуватися” (perestaty spilkuvatysia) written in Latin letters?
perestaty spilkuvatysia. 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?
Spilkuvatysia, "to communicate", comes from spilnyi, "shared" — communication is a shared thing. Perestaty works like "stop" before a verb, no surprises. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.