Rote russian

• наизу́сть

  by heart, by rote

• тверди́ть

  to keep repeating, to reiterate, to keep saying, to insist stubbornly

  to memorize, to learn by rote, to learn by heart

• зубри́ть

  to cram, to learn by rote, to memorize mechanically, to swot up

  to notch, to make notches in, to serrate

• зазу́бренный

  notched, jagged, serrated

  crammed, learned by rote, memorized by heart

• зубри́ла

  crammer, swot, grind, rote learner

• заучивание

  memorization, learning by heart, rote learning

• зазубри́ть

  to cram, to learn by heart, to memorize by rote

  to serrate, to make jagged, to notch, to nick (a blade)

• затверди́ть

  to learn by heart, to learn by rote, to memorize

  to keep repeating, to harp on

• зазу́бривать

  to learn by rote, to learn by heart, to cram, to swot up

  to notch, to serrate, to make jagged

• зубри́мый

  crammable, learnable by rote

• механи́чно

  mechanically, automatically, by rote

• тве́рженный

  drilled, rote-learned, oft-repeated

• зубря́щий

  cramming, swotting, rote learning

• зу́бренный

  learned by rote, crammed

• вы́зубривший

  having crammed, having learned by rote, having memorized

• вызу́бривающий

  cramming, memorizing by rote, learning by heart

• вызу́бриваемый

  being crammed, being memorized by rote

• зазу́бривающий

  memorizing, cramming, learning by rote

• зазу́бривавший

  cramming, memorizing by rote

• зазу́бриваемый

  crammable, that can be memorized by rote

• начётничество

  dogmatism, bookish pedantry, rote book-learning

  scholasticism, sterile hairsplitting

Examples

• Ты должен будешь все э́ти да́ты вы́учить наизусть.

  You'll have to learn all these dates by rote.

• Он зазубривает слова перед экзаменом.

  He is memorizing words by rote before the exam.

• Стихотворение, зубренное неделю, было прочитано отлично.

  The poem, learned by rote for a week, was recited excellently.

• Правило, зубренное с детства, до сих пор помню.

  I still remember the rule that I learned by rote as a child.

• Таблица умножения, зубренная в школе, пригодилась мне сейчас.

  The multiplication table I learned by rote at school has come in handy now.

• Студент, вызубривающий даты, сидел в библиотеке до ночи.

  The student memorizing dates by rote sat in the library until late at night.

• Студент, зазубривавший тексты, забывал их через день.

  The student who was memorizing texts by rote forgot them after a day.

• Ученик, зазубривавший правила, так и не понял их смысла.

  The student who was memorizing rules by rote never understood what they meant.