обеспечить
“обеспечить” (obespechit) — to provide, to ensure in Russian. Verb, level B1. Na prazdnike vsekh obespechili vodoy — "at the party everyone was provided with water" — to make sure there is enough of everything: water, housing for a family; the root is pech, to care — provision is care laid in ahead. In a live sentence: “На празднике всех обеспечили водой” — At the party everyone was provided with water. Written with the characters о, б, е, с, п, е, ч, и, т, ь.
In short
| Written in Russian | обеспечить |
| Read in Latin letters | obespechit |
| Translation | to provide, to ensure |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Na prazdnike vsekh obespechili vodoy — "at the party everyone was provided with water" — to make sure there is enough of everything: water, housing for a family; the root is pech, to care — provision is care laid in ahead.
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.
- На празднике всех обеспечили водойNa prazdnike vsekh obespechili vodoyAt the party everyone was provided with water
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 provide, to ensure” in Russian?
«обеспечить», read “obespechit”. In a live sentence: “На празднике всех обеспечили водой” — At the party everyone was provided with water. Verb, level B1; written with the characters о, б, е, с, п, е, ч, и, т, ь.
How is “обеспечить” written in Latin letters?
obespechit. 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?
Na prazdnike vsekh obespechili vodoy — "at the party everyone was provided with water" — to make sure there is enough of everything: water, housing for a family; the root is pech, to care — provision is care laid in ahead. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.