решать тебе
“решать тебе” (reshat tebe) — it is up to you in Russian. Phrase, level B1. Ya vsyo skazal, reshat tebe — "I have said everything; it is up to you" — the choice is handed back to its owner; tebe stands in the to-whom case: a pass of a word, the ball is in your court. In a live sentence: “Я всё сказал, решать тебе” — I have said everything; it is up to you. A word from the everyday Russian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Russian | решать тебе |
| Read in Latin letters | reshat tebe |
| Translation | it is up to you |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Ya vsyo skazal, reshat tebe — "I have said everything; it is up to you" — the choice is handed back to its owner; tebe stands in the to-whom case: a pass of a word, the ball is in your court.
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.
- Я всё сказал, решать тебеYa vsyo skazal, reshat tebeI have said everything; it is up to you
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 “it is up to you” in Russian?
«решать тебе», read “reshat tebe”. In a live sentence: “Я всё сказал, решать тебе” — I have said everything; it is up to you. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters р, е, ш, а, т, ь, т, е, б, е.
How is “решать тебе” written in Latin letters?
reshat tebe. 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?
Ya vsyo skazal, reshat tebe — "I have said everything; it is up to you" — the choice is handed back to its owner; tebe stands in the to-whom case: a pass of a word, the ball is in your court. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.