солнечная батарея
“солнечная батарея” (solnechnaya batareya) — solar panel in Russian. Noun, level B1. Solnechnaya batareya na kryshe dayot domu tok — "the solar panel on the roof powers the house" — the plate that catches light and gives current; solnechnaya from the sun, and batareya once meant a row of guns. In a live sentence: “Солнечная батарея на крыше даёт дому ток” — The solar panel on the roof powers the house. A word from the everyday Russian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Russian | солнечная батарея |
| Read in Latin letters | solnechnaya batareya |
| Translation | solar panel |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Solnechnaya batareya na kryshe dayot domu tok — "the solar panel on the roof powers the house" — the plate that catches light and gives current; solnechnaya from the sun, and batareya once meant a row of guns.
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.
- Солнечная батарея на крыше даёт дому токSolnechnaya batareya na kryshe dayot domu tokThe solar panel on the roof powers the house
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 “solar panel” in Russian?
«солнечная батарея», read “solnechnaya batareya”. In a live sentence: “Солнечная батарея на крыше даёт дому ток” — The solar panel on the roof powers the house. Noun, level B1; written with the characters с, о, л, н, е, ч, н, а, я, б, а, т…
How is “солнечная батарея” written in Latin letters?
solnechnaya batareya. 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?
Solnechnaya batareya na kryshe dayot domu tok — "the solar panel on the roof powers the house" — the plate that catches light and gives current; solnechnaya from the sun, and batareya once meant a row of guns. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.