правила игры
“правила игры” (pravila igry) — rules of the game in Russian. Noun, level A2. Pravila igry napisany na korobke — "the rules of the game are written on the box" — the agreement the game is played by; even children know them, and changing them mid-game is bad manners. In a live sentence: “Правила игры написаны на коробке” — The rules of the game are written on the box. Written with the characters п, р, а, в, и, л, а, и, г, р, ы.
In short
| Written in Russian | правила игры |
| Read in Latin letters | pravila igry |
| Translation | rules of the game |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Pravila igry napisany na korobke — "the rules of the game are written on the box" — the agreement the game is played by; even children know them, and changing them mid-game is bad manners.
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.
- Правила игры написаны на коробкеPravila igry napisany na korobkeThe rules of the game are written on the box
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 “rules of the game” in Russian?
«правила игры», read “pravila igry”. In a live sentence: “Правила игры написаны на коробке” — The rules of the game are written on the box. Noun, level A2; written with the characters п, р, а, в, и, л, а, и, г, р, ы.
How is “правила игры” written in Latin letters?
pravila igry. 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?
Pravila igry napisany na korobke — "the rules of the game are written on the box" — the agreement the game is played by; even children know them, and changing them mid-game is bad manners. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.