уважение к старшим
“уважение к старшим” (uvazhenie k starshim) — respect for elders in Russian. Noun, level B1. Respect for elders is brought up in the family. In a live sentence: “Уважение к старшим воспитывают в семье” — Respect for elders is brought up in the family. Written with the characters у, в, а, ж, е, н, и, е, к, с, т, а… A word from the everyday Russian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Russian | уважение к старшим |
| Read in Latin letters | uvazhenie k starshim |
| Translation | respect for elders |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Respect for elders is brought up in the family
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.
- Уважение к старшим воспитывают в семьеUvazhenie k starshim vospityvayut v semeRespect for elders is brought up in the family
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 “respect for elders” in Russian?
«уважение к старшим», read “uvazhenie k starshim”. In a live sentence: “Уважение к старшим воспитывают в семье” — Respect for elders is brought up in the family. Noun, level B1; written with the characters у, в, а, ж, е, н, и, е, к, с, т, а…
How is “уважение к старшим” written in Latin letters?
uvazhenie k starshim. 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?
Respect for elders is brought up in the family. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.