подключить
“подключить” (podklyuchit) — to connect, to plug in in Russian. Verb, level A2. Papa podklyuchil novuyu lampu — "dad plugged in the new lamp" — to join to the common thing: a lamp, a friend to a plan; pod plus klyuch, the key: connected as if the key had turned. In a live sentence: “Папа подключил новую лампу” — Dad plugged in the new lamp. Written with the characters п, о, д, к, л, ю, ч, и, т, ь.
In short
| Written in Russian | подключить |
| Read in Latin letters | podklyuchit |
| Translation | to connect, to plug in |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Papa podklyuchil novuyu lampu — "dad plugged in the new lamp" — to join to the common thing: a lamp, a friend to a plan; pod plus klyuch, the key: connected as if the key had turned.
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.
- Папа подключил новую лампуPapa podklyuchil novuyu lampuDad plugged in the new lamp
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 connect, to plug in” in Russian?
«подключить», read “podklyuchit”. In a live sentence: “Папа подключил новую лампу” — Dad plugged in the new lamp. Verb, level A2; written with the characters п, о, д, к, л, ю, ч, и, т, ь.
How is “подключить” written in Latin letters?
podklyuchit. 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?
Papa podklyuchil novuyu lampu — "dad plugged in the new lamp" — to join to the common thing: a lamp, a friend to a plan; pod plus klyuch, the key: connected as if the key had turned. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.