отменили рейс
“отменили рейс” (otmenili reys) — the flight was canceled in Russian. Phrase, level A2. Reys otmenili iz-za tumana — "the flight was canceled because of fog" — the impersonal cancellation. In a live sentence: “Рейс отменили из-за тумана, и все бросились к стойке” — The flight was canceled because of fog. Written with the characters о, т, м, е, н, и, л, и, р, е, й, с. A word from the everyday Russian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Russian | отменили рейс |
| Read in Latin letters | otmenili reys |
| Translation | the flight was canceled |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Reys otmenili iz-za tumana — "the flight was canceled because of fog" — the impersonal cancellation.
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.
- Рейс отменили из-за тумана, и все бросились к стойкеReys otmenili iz-za tumana, i vse brosilis k stoykeThe flight was canceled because of fog
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 “the flight was canceled” in Russian?
«отменили рейс», read “otmenili reys”. In a live sentence: “Рейс отменили из-за тумана, и все бросились к стойке” — The flight was canceled because of fog. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters о, т, м, е, н, и, л, и, р, е, й, с.
How is “отменили рейс” written in Latin letters?
otmenili reys. 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?
Reys otmenili iz-za tumana — "the flight was canceled because of fog" — the impersonal cancellation. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.