уважать чужую веру
“уважать чужую веру” (uvazhat chuzhuyu veru) — to respect another's faith in Russian. Phrase, level B1. In our house another's faith is respected. In a live sentence: “В нашем доме уважают чужую веру” — In our house another's faith is respected. Written with the characters у, в, а, ж, а, т, ь, ч, у, ж, у, ю… A word from the everyday Russian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Russian | уважать чужую веру |
| Read in Latin letters | uvazhat chuzhuyu veru |
| Translation | to respect another's faith |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
In our house another's faith is respected
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.
- В нашем доме уважают чужую веруV nashem dome uvazhayut chuzhuyu veruIn our house another's faith is respected
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 respect another's faith” in Russian?
«уважать чужую веру», read “uvazhat chuzhuyu veru”. In a live sentence: “В нашем доме уважают чужую веру” — In our house another's faith is respected. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters у, в, а, ж, а, т, ь, ч, у, ж, у, ю…
How is “уважать чужую веру” written in Latin letters?
uvazhat chuzhuyu veru. 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?
In our house another's faith is respected. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.