прокат автомобиля
“прокат автомобиля” (prokat avtomobilya) — car rental in Russian. Noun, level B1. Prokat avtomobilya na sutki vyshel deshevle dvukh taksi — "a day of car rental came out cheaper than two taxis" — dvukh, two, kept. In a live sentence: “Прокат автомобиля на сутки вышел дешевле двух такси” — A day of car rental came out cheaper than two taxis. Written with the characters п, р, о, к, а, т, а, в, т, о, м, о… A word from the everyday Russian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Russian | прокат автомобиля |
| Read in Latin letters | prokat avtomobilya |
| Translation | car rental |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Prokat avtomobilya na sutki vyshel deshevle dvukh taksi — "a day of car rental came out cheaper than two taxis" — dvukh, two, 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.
- Прокат автомобиля на сутки вышел дешевле двух таксиProkat avtomobilya na sutki vyshel deshevle dvukh taksiA day of car rental came out cheaper than two taxis
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 “car rental” in Russian?
«прокат автомобиля», read “prokat avtomobilya”. In a live sentence: “Прокат автомобиля на сутки вышел дешевле двух такси” — A day of car rental came out cheaper than two taxis. Noun, level B1; written with the characters п, р, о, к, а, т, а, в, т, о, м, о…
How is “прокат автомобиля” written in Latin letters?
prokat avtomobilya. 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?
Prokat avtomobilya na sutki vyshel deshevle dvukh taksi — "a day of car rental came out cheaper than two taxis" — dvukh, two, kept. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.