под конец
“под конец” (pod konets) — toward the end in Russian. Phrase, level B1. Pod konets prazdnika vse speli vmeste — "toward the end of the party everyone sang together" — at the very end; pod tells time here as in toward morning, and k kontsu says the same. In a live sentence: “Под конец праздника все спели вместе” — Toward the end of the party everyone sang together. Written with the characters п, о, д, к, о, н, е, ц.
In short
| Written in Russian | под конец |
| Read in Latin letters | pod konets |
| Translation | toward the end |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Pod konets prazdnika vse speli vmeste — "toward the end of the party everyone sang together" — at the very end; pod tells time here as in toward morning, and k kontsu says the same.
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.
- Под конец праздника все спели вместеPod konets prazdnika vse speli vmesteToward the end of the party everyone sang together
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 “toward the end” in Russian?
«под конец», read “pod konets”. In a live sentence: “Под конец праздника все спели вместе” — Toward the end of the party everyone sang together. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters п, о, д, к, о, н, е, ц.
How is “под конец” written in Latin letters?
pod konets. 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?
Pod konets prazdnika vse speli vmeste — "toward the end of the party everyone sang together" — at the very end; pod tells time here as in toward morning, and k kontsu says the same. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.