положить деньги на счёт
“положить деньги на счёт” (polozhit dengi na schyot) — to deposit money into an account in Russian. Phrase, level A2. Ya polozhil dengi na schyot utrom — "I put money into the account in the morning" — the reverse of snyat. In a live sentence: “Я положил деньги на счёт утром” — I put money into the account in the morning. Written with the characters п, о, л, о, ж, и, т, ь, д, е, н, ь…
In short
| Written in Russian | положить деньги на счёт |
| Read in Latin letters | polozhit dengi na schyot |
| Translation | to deposit money into an account |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Ya polozhil dengi na schyot utrom — "I put money into the account in the morning" — the reverse of snyat.
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.
- Я положил деньги на счёт утромYa polozhil dengi na schyot utromI put money into the account in the morning
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 deposit money into an account” in Russian?
«положить деньги на счёт», read “polozhit dengi na schyot”. In a live sentence: “Я положил деньги на счёт утром” — I put money into the account in the morning. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters п, о, л, о, ж, и, т, ь, д, е, н, ь…
How is “положить деньги на счёт” written in Latin letters?
polozhit dengi na schyot. 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?
Ya polozhil dengi na schyot utrom — "I put money into the account in the morning" — the reverse of snyat. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.