в сторону
“в сторону” (v storonu) — to the side, toward in Russian. Phrase, level A2. Otoshli v storonu, mashina edet — "step aside; a car is coming" — not straight but sideways: step aside, turn toward the wood; away from the matter means distracted, gone the wrong way. In a live sentence: “Отошли в сторону, машина едет” — Step aside; a car is coming. Written with the characters в, с, т, о, р, о, н, у. A word from the everyday Russian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Russian | в сторону |
| Read in Latin letters | v storonu |
| Translation | to the side, toward |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Otoshli v storonu, mashina edet — "step aside; a car is coming" — not straight but sideways: step aside, turn toward the wood; away from the matter means distracted, gone the wrong way.
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.
- Отошли в сторону, машина едетOtoshli v storonu, mashina edetStep aside; a car is coming
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 the side, toward” in Russian?
«в сторону», read “v storonu”. In a live sentence: “Отошли в сторону, машина едет” — Step aside; a car is coming. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters в, с, т, о, р, о, н, у.
How is “в сторону” written in Latin letters?
v storonu. 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?
Otoshli v storonu, mashina edet — "step aside; a car is coming" — not straight but sideways: step aside, turn toward the wood; away from the matter means distracted, gone the wrong way. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.