приняли на работу
“приняли на работу” (prinyali na rabotu) — I got hired in Russian. Phrase, level A2. Menya prinyali na rabotu s 1-go chisla — "I was hired from the first of the month" — the impersonal they, nobody named: prinyat is the word for taking someone into a family. In a live sentence: “Меня приняли на работу с первого числа” — I was hired from day one. Written with the characters п, р, и, н, я, л, и, н, а, р, а, б…
In short
| Written in Russian | приняли на работу |
| Read in Latin letters | prinyali na rabotu |
| Translation | I got hired |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Menya prinyali na rabotu s 1-go chisla — "I was hired from the first of the month" — the impersonal they, nobody named: prinyat is the word for taking someone into a family.
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.
- Меня приняли на работу с первого числаMenya prinyali na rabotu s pervogo chislaI was hired from day one
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 “I got hired” in Russian?
«приняли на работу», read “prinyali na rabotu”. In a live sentence: “Меня приняли на работу с первого числа” — I was hired from day one. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters п, р, и, н, я, л, и, н, а, р, а, б…
How is “приняли на работу” written in Latin letters?
prinyali na rabotu. 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?
Menya prinyali na rabotu s 1-go chisla — "I was hired from the first of the month" — the impersonal they, nobody named: prinyat is the word for taking someone into a family. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.