разрешение на работу
“разрешение на работу” (razreshenie na rabotu) — work permit in Russian. Noun, level B1. Razresheniye na rabotu poluchili cherez dva mesyatsa — "the work permit came in two months" — dva, two, kept. In a live sentence: “Разрешение на работу получили через два месяца” — The work permit came in two months. Written with the characters р, а, з, р, е, ш, е, н, и, е, н, а… A word from the everyday Russian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Russian | разрешение на работу |
| Read in Latin letters | razreshenie na rabotu |
| Translation | work permit |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Razresheniye na rabotu poluchili cherez dva mesyatsa — "the work permit came in two months" — dva, 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.
- Разрешение на работу получили через два месяцаRazreshenie na rabotu poluchili cherez dva mesyatsaThe work permit came in two months
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 “work permit” in Russian?
«разрешение на работу», read “razreshenie na rabotu”. In a live sentence: “Разрешение на работу получили через два месяца” — The work permit came in two months. Noun, level B1; written with the characters р, а, з, р, е, ш, е, н, и, е, н, а…
How is “разрешение на работу” written in Latin letters?
razreshenie 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?
Razresheniye na rabotu poluchili cherez dva mesyatsa — "the work permit came in two months" — dva, 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.