The Russian word for to read is
чита́ть
chitát'
Russian Definition
| read | |
| 1. читать, прочитать |
Translations for read and their definitions
| читать | ||
| 1. v. to read | ||
| чита́ть про себя́ — to read silently, to read to oneself | ||
| чита́ть между стро́к — to read between the lines | ||
| чита́ть без запи́нки — to read off, to run off | ||
| чита́ть запо́ем — to read avidly | ||
| чита́ть мы́сли — to read minds | ||
| чита́ть вслух — to read aloud | ||
| не зна́ет, а чита́ть сади́тся (saying) — learn to speak before you sing (literally: he/she doesn’t know but to sit for reading) | ||
| не всё чита́й, ино́е пропуска́й (proverb) — do not read everything (aloud), skip some | ||
| не мно́го чита́й, да мно́го разуме́й (proverb) — there is no need to read a lot, but to understand a lot | ||
| 2. v. to recite | ||
| чита́ть наизу́сть — to recite by heart | ||
| 3. v. to lecture, give a lecture, deliver a lecture | ||
| чита́ть ле́кции — to lecture | ||
| 4. v. to teach | ||
| чита́ть курс — to give a course | ||
| 5. v. to tell, to say (for the purpose of a lesson) | ||
| чита́ть нота́ции — to jaw | ||
| чита́ть мора́ль — to moralize | ||
| 6. v. to pronounce, to deliver | ||
| чита́ть моли́твы — to say one’s prayers | ||
| чита́ть про́поведь — to preach | ||
| чита́ть рэп — to flow | ||
| 7. v. to understand, to interpret, to decipher | ||
| чита́ть чертежи — to interpret drawings | ||
| чита́ть ка́рту — to read a map | ||
| прочитать | ||
| 1. v. to read, to read through | ||
| 2. v. to recite | ||
| изучать | ||
| 1. v. to study, to learn (implying that an individual or a group is studying or learning something with an in-depth approach) | ||
| 2. v. to familiarize oneself with, to master | ||
| 3. v. to scrutinize | ||
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