убедить
“убедить” (ubedit) — to convince, to persuade in Russian. Verb, level B1. Prodavets ubedil menya, chto kurtka na pyat zim — "the seller convinced me the jacket would last five winters" — pyat, five, kept. In a live sentence: “Продавец убедил меня, что куртка на пять зим” — The seller convinced me the jacket would last five winters. Written with the characters у, б, е, д, и, т, ь. A word from the everyday Russian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Russian | убедить |
| Read in Latin letters | ubedit |
| Translation | to convince, to persuade |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Prodavets ubedil menya, chto kurtka na pyat zim — "the seller convinced me the jacket would last five winters" — pyat, five, kept.
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.
- Продавец убедил меня, что куртка на пять зимProdavets ubedil menya, chto kurtka na pyat zimThe seller convinced me the jacket would last five winters
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 convince, to persuade” in Russian?
«убедить», read “ubedit”. In a live sentence: “Продавец убедил меня, что куртка на пять зим” — The seller convinced me the jacket would last five winters. Verb, level B1; written with the characters у, б, е, д, и, т, ь.
How is “убедить” written in Latin letters?
ubedit. 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?
Prodavets ubedil menya, chto kurtka na pyat zim — "the seller convinced me the jacket would last five winters" — pyat, five, kept. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.