Greetings in Russian
Use the greetings pack with Russian words such as welcome, meet, friend, and tomorrow.
Preview the pack →English ↔ Russian
Play your way into Russian vocabulary
Build useful Russian vocabulary through short challenges, visual prompts, and words connected to real situations—not a disconnected list.
A complete learning loop
From English word to Russian recall
MemDecks turns the pieces of vocabulary learning into one playable loop.
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Meet
See a useful word with a picture, Russian script, transliteration, and audio.
- 02
Choose
Make quick recognition decisions and get immediate, forgiving feedback.
- 03
Build
Combine familiar words into harder phrase and recall challenges.
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Keep playing
Save learned words to your collection and reuse them in other games.
What you get
What MemDecks supports for Russian
Russian is one of 16 study languages, each learned from English. Support depth differs between them; this is what Russian has.
| Feature | Russian |
|---|---|
| Script | Cyrillic (Русский) |
| Transliteration | Shown under every word, in Latin letters |
| Audio | On every card |
| Grammatical gender | Noun cards carry their gender |
| Phrase Builder lessons | 12 |
| Alphabet Quest | Yes, it teaches the Cyrillic alphabet |
| On-screen keyboard | Yes |
Real lesson content
12 Russian phrases you learn in Phrase Builder
Each Phrase Builder lesson teaches one phrase and the words inside it. These are the Russian lessons as published.
| English | Russian |
|---|---|
| The young mother sees a new car. | Молодая мать видит новую машину. |
| The young mother wants to give the child a new book today. | Молодая мать хочет сегодня дать ребёнку новую книгу. |
| The young mother wants to make soup with chicken and vegetables for dinner. | Молодая мать хочет приготовить суп с курицей и овощами на ужин. |
| The father eats fresh fish at a restaurant. | Отец ест свежую рыбу в ресторане. |
| My friend and I are going to a small cafe because we want coffee. | Мы с другом идём в маленькое кафе, потому что хотим кофе. |
| The girl says that the cake was sweet. | Девочка говорит, что торт был сладким. |
| The student knows a man from the big city. | Студент знает мужчину из большого города. |
| The young mother sees a good school across the road from an old house. | Молодая мать видит хорошую школу через дорогу от старого дома. |
| A cup of tea and a glass of milk are on the table. | На столе стоят чашка чая и стакан молока. |
| The family drinks wine at home after lunch. | Семья пьёт вино дома после обеда. |
| At breakfast, the hungry child eats an egg from a white plate. | За завтраком голодный ребёнок ест яйцо с белой тарелки. |
| The cook mixes rice with meat and pepper for dinner. | Повар смешивает рис с мясом и перцем на ужин. |
Word by word
60 Russian words those phrases teach
Every word below is shown in the form it takes in its phrase, so it may be inflected rather than the dictionary form. In the game each one comes with a picture and audio.
| English | Russian, as used in the phrase |
|---|---|
| young | Молодая |
| mother | мать |
| see | видит |
| new | новую |
| car | машину |
| want | хочет |
| give | дать |
| child | ребёнку |
| book | книгу |
| today | сегодня |
| make | приготовить |
| soup | суп |
| chicken | курицей |
| vegetable | овощами |
| dinner | ужин |
| father | Отец |
| eat | ест |
| fresh | свежую |
| fish | рыбу |
| restaurant | ресторане |
| friend | другом |
| go | идём |
| small | маленькое |
| cafe | кафе |
| coffee | кофе |
| girl | Девочка |
| say | говорит |
| cake | торт |
| be | был |
| sweet | сладким |
| student | Студент |
| know | знает |
| man | мужчину |
| big | большого |
| city | города |
| good | хорошую |
| school | школу |
| road | дорогу |
| old | старого |
| house | дома |
| table | столе |
| cup | чашка |
| tea | чая |
| glass | стакан |
| milk | молока |
| family | Семья |
| drink | пьёт |
| wine | вино |
| home | дома |
| lunch | обеда |
| breakfast | завтраком |
| hungry | голодный |
| egg | яйцо |
| white | белой |
| plate | тарелки |
| cook | Повар |
| mix | смешивает |
| rice | рис |
| meat | мясом |
| pepper | перцем |
Useful starting points
Build vocabulary by situation
These are three of 21 topic packs. A pack feeds you new words one at a time, each translated into Russian.
Travel vocabulary in Russian
Use the travel pack for Russian transport and accommodation words such as plane, train, hotel, and room.
Preview the pack →Food vocabulary in Russian
Use the food pack for everyday Russian words such as apple, banana, orange, lemon, and grape.
Preview the pack →Questions
Learning Russian with MemDecks
Can I translate Russian back into English?
Yes. The translator supports the English–Russian learning pair in either direction while keeping Russian as the study language.
Do Russian cards include transliteration?
MemDecks can show transliteration alongside Russian script, helping beginners connect spelling and pronunciation while they learn the alphabet.
Can I choose which words to study?
Yes. Translate and save your own useful words, or follow a themed word pack and practise those cards through the app.
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