праздничный ужин
“праздничный ужин” (prazdnichnyy uzhin) — holiday dinner in Russian. Noun, level A2. Prazdnichnyy uzhin nachalsya v vosem — "the holiday dinner began at eight" — the dinner of the occasion, long and in courses; prazdnik is from prazdny, the free day: dinner at a free table. In a live sentence: “Праздничный ужин начался в восемь” — The holiday dinner began at eight. Written with the characters п, р, а, з, д, н, и, ч, н, ы, й, у…
In short
| Written in Russian | праздничный ужин |
| Read in Latin letters | prazdnichnyy uzhin |
| Translation | holiday dinner |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Prazdnichnyy uzhin nachalsya v vosem — "the holiday dinner began at eight" — the dinner of the occasion, long and in courses; prazdnik is from prazdny, the free day: dinner at a free table.
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.
- Праздничный ужин начался в восемьPrazdnichnyy uzhin nachalsya v vosemThe holiday dinner began at eight
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 “holiday dinner” in Russian?
«праздничный ужин», read “prazdnichnyy uzhin”. In a live sentence: “Праздничный ужин начался в восемь” — The holiday dinner began at eight. Noun, level A2; written with the characters п, р, а, з, д, н, и, ч, н, ы, й, у…
How is “праздничный ужин” written in Latin letters?
prazdnichnyy uzhin. 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?
Prazdnichnyy uzhin nachalsya v vosem — "the holiday dinner began at eight" — the dinner of the occasion, long and in courses; prazdnik is from prazdny, the free day: dinner at a free table. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.