поставка
“поставка” (postavka) — delivery, supply in Russian. Noun, level B1. Postavka zaderzhalas na nedelyu — "the delivery was delayed a week" — the delivery by contract: of gas, the first one; from postavit, to set, and English supply and delivery split the job. In a live sentence: “Поставка задержалась на неделю” — The delivery was delayed a week. Written with the characters п, о, с, т, а, в, к, а. A word from the everyday Russian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Russian | поставка |
| Read in Latin letters | postavka |
| Translation | delivery, supply |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Postavka zaderzhalas na nedelyu — "the delivery was delayed a week" — the delivery by contract: of gas, the first one; from postavit, to set, and English supply and delivery split the job.
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.
- Поставка задержалась на неделюPostavka zaderzhalas na nedelyuThe delivery was delayed a week
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 “delivery, supply” in Russian?
«поставка», read “postavka”. In a live sentence: “Поставка задержалась на неделю” — The delivery was delayed a week. Noun, level B1; written with the characters п, о, с, т, а, в, к, а.
How is “поставка” written in Latin letters?
postavka. 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?
Postavka zaderzhalas na nedelyu — "the delivery was delayed a week" — the delivery by contract: of gas, the first one; from postavit, to set, and English supply and delivery split the job. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.