обновить
“обновить” (obnovit) — to renovate, to update in Russian. Verb, level B1. Dachnyy dom obnovili k letu — "the country house was renovated for the summer" — to make like new: a renovation, a wardrobe, a program; from novyy, new, and vozobnovit is the running again, not the replacing. In a live sentence: “Дачный дом обновили к лету” — The country house was renovated for the summer. Written with the characters о, б, н, о, в, и, т, ь.
In short
| Written in Russian | обновить |
| Read in Latin letters | obnovit |
| Translation | to renovate, to update |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Dachnyy dom obnovili k letu — "the country house was renovated for the summer" — to make like new: a renovation, a wardrobe, a program; from novyy, new, and vozobnovit is the running again, not the replacing.
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.
- Дачный дом обновили к летуDachnyy dom obnovili k letuThe country house was renovated for the summer
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 renovate, to update” in Russian?
«обновить», read “obnovit”. In a live sentence: “Дачный дом обновили к лету” — The country house was renovated for the summer. Verb, level B1; written with the characters о, б, н, о, в, и, т, ь.
How is “обновить” written in Latin letters?
obnovit. 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?
Dachnyy dom obnovili k letu — "the country house was renovated for the summer" — to make like new: a renovation, a wardrobe, a program; from novyy, new, and vozobnovit is the running again, not the replacing. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.