парта
“парта” (parta) — school desk in Russian. Noun, level A1. The desk of the pupil, not the office. Za posledney partoy sidyat bliznetsy — "twins sit at the last desk". In a live sentence: “За последней партой сидят близнецы” — Twins sit at the last desk. Written with the characters п, а, р, т, а. A word from the everyday Russian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Russian | парта |
| Read in Latin letters | parta |
| Translation | school desk |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
The desk of the pupil, not the office. Za posledney partoy sidyat bliznetsy — "twins sit at the last desk".
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.
- За последней партой сидят близнецыZa posledney partoy sidyat bliznetsyTwins sit at the last desk
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 “school desk” in Russian?
«парта», read “parta”. In a live sentence: “За последней партой сидят близнецы” — Twins sit at the last desk. Noun, level A1; written with the characters п, а, р, т, а.
How is “парта” written in Latin letters?
parta. 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?
The desk of the pupil, not the office. Za posledney partoy sidyat bliznetsy — "twins sit at the last desk". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.