Нам пощастило, тому ми не програли нудний раунд.

Because пощастити uses an impersonal pattern in Ukrainian. The person who experiences the luck is put in the dative case, not the nominative.

So:

• ми = we
• нам = to us

A very literal breakdown is something like Luck happened to us, but in natural English we say We got lucky or We were lucky.

That is why Ukrainian says Нам пощастило, not Ми пощастили.

Because пощастило is being used impersonally. In this kind of structure, Ukrainian often uses the neuter singular past form.

So even though the meaning is about us, the verb does not agree with ми as a normal personal subject, because there is no real grammatical subject here.

Compare:

• Ми виграли. = We won.
• Нам пощастило. = We got lucky.

In the second sentence, нам is an experiencer in the dative case, and пощастило stays in this impersonal -ло form.

Пощастило means was lucky, got lucky, or had good luck.

It comes from the verb пощастити. In this sentence, Нам пощастило means:

• We were lucky
• We got lucky

It usually suggests that success depended at least partly on luck, not only on skill or effort.

Here тому means therefore, so, or that’s why.

It connects the two clauses:

• Нам пощастило = We got lucky
• тому ми не програли нудний раунд = so we didn’t lose the boring round

So the second clause is presented as a result of the first one.

Because the sentence has two separate clauses:

• Нам пощастило
• ми не програли нудний раунд

They are linked by тому, so Ukrainian normally puts a comma before it.

This is very similar to English punctuation in sentences like:

• We got lucky, so we didn’t lose the round.

Програли is the perfective past form of програти, so it focuses on a completed result: whether the round was lost or not.

That fits this sentence, because it is about the outcome of a specific round.

• програли = lost / did lose in the sense of a finished event
• програвали = were losing / used to lose / lost repeatedly, depending on context

So ми не програли means we did not lose that completed round.

Not always.

Ми не програли literally means we did not lose. That can imply:

• we won, or
• we tied/drew, or
• we avoided defeat in some other way

If you want to say clearly that we won, Ukrainian would normally use ми виграли.

So не програли is slightly weaker and more literal than виграли.

Because нудний раунд is the direct object of не програли, and it is in the accusative singular.

However, for a masculine inanimate noun, the accusative usually looks the same as the nominative. That is why you see:

• раунд
• нудний раунд

rather than a visibly different ending.

The adjective matches the noun:

• нудний = masculine singular
• раунд = masculine singular inanimate

So the form looks like the dictionary form, even though its function in the sentence is object, not subject.

Sometimes yes, but not necessarily here.

In modern Ukrainian, with a direct object after negation, the accusative is very common, especially when the object is:

• specific
• concrete
• understood as a whole item or event

That is exactly what we have in не програли нудний раунд.

So this sentence is completely normal with the accusative. A learner should not assume that не automatically forces the genitive every time.

Yes. Ukrainian word order is fairly flexible, and changing it can shift emphasis.

The version here is neutral and natural:

• Нам пощастило, тому ми не програли нудний раунд.

But other orders are possible depending on what you want to emphasize. For example, you could emphasize the object more strongly in a different context.

Still, for a learner, the given word order is a good standard pattern:

1. result or situation: Нам пощастило
2. consequence: тому ми не програли...

Yes. Раунд is a normal Ukrainian word, borrowed from English round.

It is commonly used in contexts like:

• sports
• games
• competitions
• debates

It behaves like a regular masculine noun in Ukrainian and can be declined normally. So although it is a borrowing, it is fully usable in everyday Ukrainian.