превысить скорость
“превысить скорость” (prevysit skorost) — to exceed the speed limit in Russian. Phrase, level B1. Yesli prevysit skorost na dvadtsat, pridyot pismo so shtrafom — "go twenty over and a letter with a fine will come" — dvadtsat, twenty, kept. In a live sentence: “Если превысить скорость на двадцать, придёт письмо со штрафом” — Go twenty over and a letter with a fine will come. Written with the characters п, р, е, в, ы, с, и, т, ь, с, к, о…
In short
| Written in Russian | превысить скорость |
| Read in Latin letters | prevysit skorost |
| Translation | to exceed the speed limit |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Yesli prevysit skorost na dvadtsat, pridyot pismo so shtrafom — "go twenty over and a letter with a fine will come" — dvadtsat, twenty, kept.
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.
- Если превысить скорость на двадцать, придёт письмо со штрафомEsli prevysit skorost na dvadtsat, pridyot pismo so shtrafomGo twenty over and a letter with a fine will come
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 exceed the speed limit” in Russian?
«превысить скорость», read “prevysit skorost”. In a live sentence: “Если превысить скорость на двадцать, придёт письмо со штрафом” — Go twenty over and a letter with a fine will come. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters п, р, е, в, ы, с, и, т, ь, с, к, о…
How is “превысить скорость” written in Latin letters?
prevysit skorost. 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?
Yesli prevysit skorost na dvadtsat, pridyot pismo so shtrafom — "go twenty over and a letter with a fine will come" — dvadtsat, twenty, kept. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.