электронный адрес
“электронный адрес” (elektronnyy adres) — email address in Russian. Noun, level A1. Elektronnyy adres ya ukorotil do dvukh bukv — "I shortened the email address to two letters" — where the letters arrive; the adres serves letters and homes alike. In a live sentence: “Электронный адрес я укоротил до двух букв” — I shortened the email address to two letters. Written with the characters э, л, е, к, т, р, о, н, н, ы, й, а… A word from the everyday Russian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Russian | электронный адрес |
| Read in Latin letters | elektronnyy adres |
| Translation | email address |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Elektronnyy adres ya ukorotil do dvukh bukv — "I shortened the email address to two letters" — where the letters arrive; the adres serves letters and homes alike.
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.
- Электронный адрес я укоротил до двух буквElektronnyy adres ya ukorotil do dvukh bukvI shortened the email address to two letters
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 “email address” in Russian?
«электронный адрес», read “elektronnyy adres”. In a live sentence: “Электронный адрес я укоротил до двух букв” — I shortened the email address to two letters. Noun, level A1; written with the characters э, л, е, к, т, р, о, н, н, ы, й, а…
How is “электронный адрес” written in Latin letters?
elektronnyy adres. 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?
Elektronnyy adres ya ukorotil do dvukh bukv — "I shortened the email address to two letters" — where the letters arrive; the adres serves letters and homes alike. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.