опоздать на поезд
“опоздать на поезд” (opozdat na poezd) — to miss the train in Russian. Phrase, level A2. Literally "to be late for the train": ya ne khochu opozdat na poyezd. In a live sentence: “Я не хочу опоздать на поезд” — I do not want to miss the train. Written with the characters о, п, о, з, д, а, т, ь, н, а, п, о… A word from the everyday Russian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Russian | опоздать на поезд |
| Read in Latin letters | opozdat na poezd |
| Translation | to miss the train |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "to be late for the train": ya ne khochu opozdat na poyezd.
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.
- Я не хочу опоздать на поездYa ne khochu opozdat na poezdI do not want to miss the train
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 miss the train” in Russian?
«опоздать на поезд», read “opozdat na poezd”. In a live sentence: “Я не хочу опоздать на поезд” — I do not want to miss the train. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters о, п, о, з, д, а, т, ь, н, а, п, о…
How is “опоздать на поезд” written in Latin letters?
opozdat na poezd. 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?
Literally "to be late for the train": ya ne khochu opozdat na poyezd. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.