согласиться
“согласиться” (soglasitsya) — to agree, to consent in Russian. Verb, level B1. On soglasilsya s 1-go raza, i my ne poverili — "he agreed on the first ask; we could not believe it" — s plus golos, the voice: to agree is to stand under one voice, and the perfective signs at once. — "he agreed on the first ask; we could not believe it". Written with the characters с, о, г, л, а, с, и, т, ь, с, я.
In short
| Written in Russian | согласиться |
| Read in Latin letters | soglasitsya |
| Translation | to agree, to consent |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
On soglasilsya s 1-go raza, i my ne poverili — "he agreed on the first ask; we could not believe it" — s plus golos, the voice: to agree is to stand under one voice, and the perfective signs at once. — "he agreed on the first ask; we could not believe it".
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.
- Он согласился с первого раза, и мы не поверилиOn soglasilsya s pervogo raza, i my ne poveriliHe agreed at once, and we did not believe it
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 agree, to consent” in Russian?
«согласиться», read “soglasitsya”. In a live sentence: “Он согласился с первого раза, и мы не поверили” — He agreed at once, and we did not believe it. Verb, level B1; written with the characters с, о, г, л, а, с, и, т, ь, с, я.
How is “согласиться” written in Latin letters?
soglasitsya. 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?
On soglasilsya s 1-go raza, i my ne poverili — "he agreed on the first ask; we could not believe it" — s plus golos, the voice: to agree is to stand under one voice, and the perfective signs at once. — "he agreed on the first ask; we could not believe it". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.