счёт в игре
“счёт в игре” (schyot v igre) — score (game) in Russian. Noun, level A2. Schyot v igre otkrylsya rano — "the scoring opened in minute two" — how-many-to-how-many: dva-odin, two-one; one schyot serves the game, the water bill and the bank, and English score is from notches. In a live sentence: “Счёт в игре открыли на второй минуте” — The scoring opened in minute two. Written with the characters с, ч, ё, т, в, и, г, р, е.
In short
| Written in Russian | счёт в игре |
| Read in Latin letters | schyot v igre |
| Translation | score (game) |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Schyot v igre otkrylsya rano — "the scoring opened in minute two" — how-many-to-how-many: dva-odin, two-one; one schyot serves the game, the water bill and the bank, and English score is from notches.
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.
- Счёт в игре открыли на второй минутеSchyot v igre otkryli na vtoroy minuteThe scoring opened in minute two
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 “score (game)” in Russian?
«счёт в игре», read “schyot v igre”. In a live sentence: “Счёт в игре открыли на второй минуте” — The scoring opened in minute two. Noun, level A2; written with the characters с, ч, ё, т, в, и, г, р, е.
How is “счёт в игре” written in Latin letters?
schyot v igre. 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?
Schyot v igre otkrylsya rano — "the scoring opened in minute two" — how-many-to-how-many: dva-odin, two-one; one schyot serves the game, the water bill and the bank, and English score is from notches. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.