запасы недр
“запасы недр” (zapasy nedr) — mineral reserves in Russian. Phrase, level B1. Zapasy nedr eshchyo ne soschitany — "the mineral reserves have not been counted yet" — nedra is what lies inside the earth, under the surface; the reserves are everything precious in it — a word of laws and news. In a live sentence: “Запасы недр ещё не сосчитаны” — The mineral reserves have not been counted yet. Written with the characters з, а, п, а, с, ы, н, е, д, р.
In short
| Written in Russian | запасы недр |
| Read in Latin letters | zapasy nedr |
| Translation | mineral reserves |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Zapasy nedr eshchyo ne soschitany — "the mineral reserves have not been counted yet" — nedra is what lies inside the earth, under the surface; the reserves are everything precious in it — a word of laws and news.
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.
- Запасы недр ещё не сосчитаныZapasy nedr eshchyo ne soschitanyThe mineral reserves have not been counted yet
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 “mineral reserves” in Russian?
«запасы недр», read “zapasy nedr”. In a live sentence: “Запасы недр ещё не сосчитаны” — The mineral reserves have not been counted yet. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters з, а, п, а, с, ы, н, е, д, р.
How is “запасы недр” written in Latin letters?
zapasy nedr. 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?
Zapasy nedr eshchyo ne soschitany — "the mineral reserves have not been counted yet" — nedra is what lies inside the earth, under the surface; the reserves are everything precious in it — a word of laws and news. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.