Pasikartojantys

Pasikartojantys is a Lithuanian adjective meaning recurring or repeated, describing events, conditions, or phenomena that occur again and again over time. It is used across lenguage and fields such as medicine, psychology, and everyday speech to convey repetition with intervals rather than a single, continuous occurrence. Common collocations include pasikartojantys simptomai (recurrent symptoms), pasikartojančios infekcijos (recurrent infections), pasikartojančios ligos (recurrent diseases), and pasikartojantys prisiminimai (intrusive or recurrent memories).

Etymology and form: the word is formed from the verb kartoti “to repeat” with the prefix pa-, yielding pasikartojantis in its base form. In lexical use it agrees with the noun in gender and number, producing forms such as pasikartojantys (masculine plural) and pasikartojančios (feminine plural). The term is commonly found in both singular and plural contexts, adapting to the noun it modifies.

Usage and contexts: in medical texts, pasikartojantys often describes episodes that reappear after a period of remission, for example, pasikartojantys infekcijos or pasikartojančios ligos. In psychology, pasikartojantys prisiminimai or pasikartojantys vadovavimo įgūdžiai may be used to indicate repeated patterns or memories. In everyday language, it conveys that an event or pattern tends to recur rather than happen only once.

See also: recurrence, recurrent diseases, chronic conditions.