провести пальцем по экрану
“провести пальцем по экрану” (provesti paltsem po ekranu) — to swipe the screen in Russian. Phrase, level A1. Provedi paltsem po ekranu vverkh, chtoby otkryt — "swipe up on the screen to open" — the move everyone makes a hundred times a day; in speech the Russian borrowed the swipe verb too. In a live sentence: “Проведи пальцем по экрану вверх, чтобы открыть” — Swipe up on the screen to open. A word from the everyday Russian course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Russian | провести пальцем по экрану |
| Read in Latin letters | provesti paltsem po ekranu |
| Translation | to swipe the screen |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Provedi paltsem po ekranu vverkh, chtoby otkryt — "swipe up on the screen to open" — the move everyone makes a hundred times a day; in speech the Russian borrowed the swipe verb too.
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.
- Проведи пальцем по экрану вверх, чтобы открытьProvedi paltsem po ekranu vverkh, chtoby otkrytSwipe up on the screen to open
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 swipe the screen” in Russian?
«провести пальцем по экрану», read “provesti paltsem po ekranu”. In a live sentence: “Проведи пальцем по экрану вверх, чтобы открыть” — Swipe up on the screen to open. Phrase, level A1; written with the characters п, р, о, в, е, с, т, и, п, а, л, ь…
How is “провести пальцем по экрану” written in Latin letters?
provesti paltsem po ekranu. 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?
Provedi paltsem po ekranu vverkh, chtoby otkryt — "swipe up on the screen to open" — the move everyone makes a hundred times a day; in speech the Russian borrowed the swipe verb too. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.