Lingoflyповернімося до теми
- повернімося до темиpovernimosia do temylet us get back to the topic
“повернімося до теми” (povernimosia do temy) — let us get back to the topic in Ukrainian. Phrase, level B1. A command for the whole group: the we-form ends in -mo, or -mosia with the reflexive tail. The topic is returned TO, with do plus a bent form. In a live sentence: “Повернімося до теми зустрічі” (Povernimosia do temy zustrichi) — Let us get back to the topic of the meeting.
In short
| Written in Ukrainian | повернімося до теми (povernimosia do temy) |
| Read in Latin letters | povernimosia do temy |
| Translation | let us get back to the topic |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
A command for the whole group: the we-form ends in -mo, or -mosia with the reflexive tail. The topic is returned TO, with do plus a bent form.
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.
- Повернімося до теми зустрічіPovernimosia do temy zustrichiLet us get back to the topic of the meeting
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 “let us get back to the topic” in Ukrainian?
«повернімося до теми» (povernimosia do temy), read “povernimosia do temy”. In a live sentence: “Повернімося до теми зустрічі” (Povernimosia do temy zustrichi) — Let us get back to the topic of the meeting. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters п, о (o), в (v), е, р, н, і (i), м, о (o), с, я (ya), д…
How is “повернімося до теми” (povernimosia do temy) written in Latin letters?
povernimosia do temy. 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?
A command for the whole group: the we-form ends in -mo, or -mosia with the reflexive tail. The topic is returned TO, with do plus a bent form. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.