чехол для телефона
“чехол для телефона” (chekhol dlya telefona) — phone case in Russian. Noun, level A1. Novyy chekhol dlya telefona — podarok brata — "the new phone case is a gift from my brother" — the protective shell of the device; the trap: English case is also a suitcase and a court case. In a live sentence: “Новый чехол для телефона — подарок брата” — The new phone case is a gift from my brother. A word from the everyday Russian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Russian | чехол для телефона |
| Read in Latin letters | chekhol dlya telefona |
| Translation | phone case |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Novyy chekhol dlya telefona — podarok brata — "the new phone case is a gift from my brother" — the protective shell of the device; the trap: English case is also a suitcase and a court case.
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.
- Новый чехол для телефона — подарок братаNovyy chekhol dlya telefona — podarok brataThe new phone case is a gift from my brother
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 “phone case” in Russian?
«чехол для телефона», read “chekhol dlya telefona”. In a live sentence: “Новый чехол для телефона — подарок брата” — The new phone case is a gift from my brother. Noun, level A1; written with the characters ч, е, х, о, л, д, л, я, т, е, л, е…
How is “чехол для телефона” written in Latin letters?
chekhol dlya telefona. 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?
Novyy chekhol dlya telefona — podarok brata — "the new phone case is a gift from my brother" — the protective shell of the device; the trap: English case is also a suitcase and a court case. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.