остаться при своём мнении
“остаться при своём мнении” (ostatsya pri svoyom mnenii) — to stand by one's opinion in Russian. Phrase, level B1. After the long argument each stood by their opinion. In a live sentence: “После долгого спора каждый остался при своём мнении” — After the long argument each stood by their opinion. Written with the characters о, с, т, а, т, ь, с, я, п, р, и, с… A word from the everyday Russian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Russian | остаться при своём мнении |
| Read in Latin letters | ostatsya pri svoyom mnenii |
| Translation | to stand by one's opinion |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
After the long argument each stood by their opinion
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.
- После долгого спора каждый остался при своём мненииPosle dolgogo spora kazhdyy ostalsya pri svoyom mneniiAfter the long argument each stood by their opinion
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 stand by one's opinion” in Russian?
«остаться при своём мнении», read “ostatsya pri svoyom mnenii”. In a live sentence: “После долгого спора каждый остался при своём мнении” — After the long argument each stood by their opinion. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters о, с, т, а, т, ь, с, я, п, р, и, с…
How is “остаться при своём мнении” written in Latin letters?
ostatsya pri svoyom mnenii. 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?
After the long argument each stood by their opinion. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.