налоговый номер
“налоговый номер” (nalogovyy nomer) — tax number in Russian. Noun, level A2. The number the tax office knows you by; employers ask for it together with the passport. Nalog is tax. In a live sentence: “Работодатель просит налоговый номер и паспорт” — The employer asks for the tax number and the passport. Written with the characters н, а, л, о, г, о, в, ы, й, н, о, м… A word from the everyday Russian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Russian | налоговый номер |
| Read in Latin letters | nalogovyy nomer |
| Translation | tax number |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
The number the tax office knows you by; employers ask for it together with the passport. Nalog is tax.
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.
- Работодатель просит налоговый номер и паспортRabotodatel prosit nalogovyy nomer i pasportThe employer asks for the tax number and the passport
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 “tax number” in Russian?
«налоговый номер», read “nalogovyy nomer”. In a live sentence: “Работодатель просит налоговый номер и паспорт” — The employer asks for the tax number and the passport. Noun, level A2; written with the characters н, а, л, о, г, о, в, ы, й, н, о, м…
How is “налоговый номер” written in Latin letters?
nalogovyy nomer. 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?
The number the tax office knows you by; employers ask for it together with the passport. Nalog is tax. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.