навестить
“навестить” (navestit) — to visit (someone) in Russian. Verb, level B1. Sobralsya navestit babushku v bolnitse — "he is going to visit grandma at the hospital" — to come and see after: grandma in the village, a friend in the hospital; English visit covers both calls. In a live sentence: “Собрался навестить бабушку в больнице” — He is going to visit grandma at the hospital. Written with the characters н, а, в, е, с, т, и, т, ь.
In short
| Written in Russian | навестить |
| Read in Latin letters | navestit |
| Translation | to visit (someone) |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Sobralsya navestit babushku v bolnitse — "he is going to visit grandma at the hospital" — to come and see after: grandma in the village, a friend in the hospital; English visit covers both calls.
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.
- Собрался навестить бабушку в больницеSobralsya navestit babushku v bolnitseHe is going to visit grandma at the hospital
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 “to visit (someone)” in Russian?
«навестить», read “navestit”. In a live sentence: “Собрался навестить бабушку в больнице” — He is going to visit grandma at the hospital. Verb, level B1; written with the characters н, а, в, е, с, т, и, т, ь.
How is “навестить” written in Latin letters?
navestit. 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?
Sobralsya navestit babushku v bolnitse — "he is going to visit grandma at the hospital" — to come and see after: grandma in the village, a friend in the hospital; English visit covers both calls. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.