обойти
“обойти” (oboyti) — to walk around in Russian. Verb, level B1. Luzhu oboshli, botinki ostalis sukhimi — "they walked around the puddle; the boots stayed dry" — to go round: a puddle, the whole town; a separate sense is to find the loophole — around the rule, by a side path. In a live sentence: “Лужу обошли, ботинки остались сухими” — They walked around the puddle; the boots stayed dry. Written with the characters о, б, о, й, т, и.
In short
| Written in Russian | обойти |
| Read in Latin letters | oboyti |
| Translation | to walk around |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Luzhu oboshli, botinki ostalis sukhimi — "they walked around the puddle; the boots stayed dry" — to go round: a puddle, the whole town; a separate sense is to find the loophole — around the rule, by a side path.
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.
- Лужу обошли, ботинки остались сухимиLuzhu oboshli, botinki ostalis sukhimiThey walked around the puddle; the boots stayed dry
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 walk around” in Russian?
«обойти», read “oboyti”. In a live sentence: “Лужу обошли, ботинки остались сухими” — They walked around the puddle; the boots stayed dry. Verb, level B1; written with the characters о, б, о, й, т, и.
How is “обойти” written in Latin letters?
oboyti. 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?
Luzhu oboshli, botinki ostalis sukhimi — "they walked around the puddle; the boots stayed dry" — to go round: a puddle, the whole town; a separate sense is to find the loophole — around the rule, by a side path. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.