снять обувь
“снять обувь” (snyat obuv) — to take off one's shoes in Russian. Phrase, level A2. It is the custom in the house to take off shoes. In a live sentence: “В доме принято снимать обувь” — It is the custom in the house to take off shoes. Written with the characters с, н, я, т, ь, о, б, у, в, ь. A word from the everyday Russian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Russian | снять обувь |
| Read in Latin letters | snyat obuv |
| Translation | to take off one's shoes |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
It is the custom in the house to take off shoes
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.
- В доме принято снимать обувьV dome prinyato snimat obuvIt is the custom in the house to take off shoes
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 take off one's shoes” in Russian?
«снять обувь», read “snyat obuv”. In a live sentence: “В доме принято снимать обувь” — It is the custom in the house to take off shoes. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters с, н, я, т, ь, о, б, у, в, ь.
How is “снять обувь” written in Latin letters?
snyat obuv. 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?
It is the custom in the house to take off shoes. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.