сведения
“сведения” (svedeniya) — information, data in Russian. Noun, level B1. Vse svedeniya o poezdakh visyat na doske — "all the train information is posted on the board" — plural only: about trains, reference information; from vedat, to know, and vedomost is the same family on paper. In a live sentence: “Все сведения о поездах висят на доске” — All the train information is posted on the board. Written with the characters с, в, е, д, е, н, и, я.
In short
| Written in Russian | сведения |
| Read in Latin letters | svedeniya |
| Translation | information, data |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Vse svedeniya o poezdakh visyat na doske — "all the train information is posted on the board" — plural only: about trains, reference information; from vedat, to know, and vedomost is the same family on paper.
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.
- Все сведения о поездах висят на доскеVse svedeniya o poezdakh visyat na doskeAll the train information is posted on the board
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 “information, data” in Russian?
«сведения», read “svedeniya”. In a live sentence: “Все сведения о поездах висят на доске” — All the train information is posted on the board. Noun, level B1; written with the characters с, в, е, д, е, н, и, я.
How is “сведения” written in Latin letters?
svedeniya. 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?
Vse svedeniya o poezdakh visyat na doske — "all the train information is posted on the board" — plural only: about trains, reference information; from vedat, to know, and vedomost is the same family on paper. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.