дверь не закрывается
“дверь не закрывается” (dver ne zakryvaetsya) — the door will not close in Russian. Phrase, level A1. Eta dver ne zakryvayetsya bez usiliya — "this door will not close without effort". In a live sentence: “Эта дверь не закрывается без усилия” — This door will not close without effort. Written with the characters д, в, е, р, ь, н, е, з, а, к, р, ы… A word from the everyday Russian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Russian | дверь не закрывается |
| Read in Latin letters | dver ne zakryvaetsya |
| Translation | the door will not close |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Eta dver ne zakryvayetsya bez usiliya — "this door will not close without effort".
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.
- Эта дверь не закрывается без усилияEta dver ne zakryvaetsya bez usiliyaThis door will not close without effort
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 “the door will not close” in Russian?
«дверь не закрывается», read “dver ne zakryvaetsya”. In a live sentence: “Эта дверь не закрывается без усилия” — This door will not close without effort. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters д, в, е, р, ь, н, е, з, а, к, р, ы…
How is “дверь не закрывается” written in Latin letters?
dver ne zakryvaetsya. 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?
Eta dver ne zakryvayetsya bez usiliya — "this door will not close without effort". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.