сточные воды
“сточные воды” (stochnye vody) — wastewater, sewage in Russian. Phrase, level B1. Stochnye vody idut na ochistku — "the wastewater goes for treatment" — the water that drains off the factory or the house through pipes; stok is where it drains to, and English says wastewater in one word. In a live sentence: “Сточные воды идут на очистку” — The wastewater goes for treatment. Written with the characters с, т, о, ч, н, ы, е, в, о, д, ы.
In short
| Written in Russian | сточные воды |
| Read in Latin letters | stochnye vody |
| Translation | wastewater, sewage |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Stochnye vody idut na ochistku — "the wastewater goes for treatment" — the water that drains off the factory or the house through pipes; stok is where it drains to, and English says wastewater in one word.
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.
- Сточные воды идут на очисткуStochnye vody idut na ochistkuThe wastewater goes for treatment
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 “wastewater, sewage” in Russian?
«сточные воды», read “stochnye vody”. In a live sentence: “Сточные воды идут на очистку” — The wastewater goes for treatment. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters с, т, о, ч, н, ы, е, в, о, д, ы.
How is “сточные воды” written in Latin letters?
stochnye vody. 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?
Stochnye vody idut na ochistku — "the wastewater goes for treatment" — the water that drains off the factory or the house through pipes; stok is where it drains to, and English says wastewater in one word. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.