🤖 Literally, in English
“The Cossack line will never run out.”
Козацькому роду нема переводу. Kozatskomu rodu nema perevodu
🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“We're still here, and we're not going anywhere.”
also: “Our people endure.” · “You can't finish us off.”
- 📖 Meaning
- Ukrainians endure — the line continues no matter what.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- It is not funny; it is defiant. Included because a collection of Ukrainian sayings without this one would be incomplete.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- No direct English equivalent. There is no English equivalent. It is a statement of national continuity tied to a specific historical identity — the closest English gets is a general phrase like 'we endure', which loses everything specific.
- 📝 Explanation
- Said proudly, often at celebrations, and often about a family that has come through something hard. Rhymes in Ukrainian.
- 🏛 Cultural context
- 'Козацький рід' refers to descent from the Cossacks, the self-governing warrior communities of the 16th–18th centuries who remain a central symbol of Ukrainian independence.
🧠 Learn
- endure (verb) — to continue to exist through difficulty — витримувати, тривати “The tradition endures.”
- line (noun) — a family through the generations — рід “The family line goes back 400 years.”
🗣 In context
Пережили і не таке. Козацькому роду нема переводу.
We've been through worse. We're still here, and we're not going anywhere.
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