Он буквально повторил мои слова.

Он means he. Russian often omits subject pronouns when the meaning is clear from context, so Повторил мои слова can also be possible in the right situation.

However, Он буквально повторил мои слова is completely natural if you want to:

• make the subject explicit,
• contrast him with someone else,
• or simply start a sentence in a neutral way.

So Russian can omit he, but it does not have to.

Here буквально means literally or word for word.

It tells you that he repeated the exact words, not just the general idea.

In Russian, буквально can also sometimes be used more loosely, like English literally, but in this sentence the most natural reading is that the words were repeated exactly.

Повторил is the perfective past tense form of повторить.

Russian aspect matters a lot:

• повторил = he repeated it, as a completed action
• повторял = he was repeating / used to repeat / repeated repeatedly

In this sentence, the idea is that he performed one complete act of repeating the words, so повторил is the natural choice.

Повторил is the masculine singular past tense of повторить.

A useful breakdown:

• infinitive: повторить = to repeat
• past tense stem: повтори-
• masculine past ending: -л
• result: повторил

Russian past tense agrees with gender and number:

• он повторил = he repeated
• она повторила = she repeated
• оно повторило = it repeated
• они повторили = they repeated

Мои слова means my words.

The noun is слова:

• singular: слово = word
• plural: слова = words

The possessive pronoun мой must agree with the noun in number, gender, and case:

• мой = my (masculine singular)
• моя = my (feminine singular)
• моё = my (neuter singular)
• мои = my (plural)

Since слова is plural, you need мои.

In this sentence, мои слова is in the accusative case, because it is the direct object of повторил.

But both words look the same as in the nominative:

• nominative plural: мои слова
• accusative plural: мои слова

Why? Because слова is inanimate, and for inanimate plural nouns, the accusative usually matches the nominative.

So even though the function is different, the form stays the same.

Yes. Russian word order is flexible.

The neutral order here is:

• Он буквально повторил мои слова.

But other orders are possible, depending on emphasis:

• Он повторил мои слова буквально.
• Мои слова он буквально повторил.
• Буквально он повторил мои слова.

These versions all keep roughly the same basic meaning, but they shift what sounds most important or contrastive.

Russian has no articles, so there is no word corresponding directly to the or a/an.

That means Russian relies on:

• context,
• word order,
• intonation,
• and words like этот (this) or possessives like мой (my)

In this sentence, мои already makes the phrase specific: my words.

It is a very common pattern, though it may feel unusual to an English speaker.

The noun is:

• слово = word
• слова = words

Many neuter nouns in -о form the plural in -а:

• окно → окна
• письмо → письма
• слово → слова

So it is something you need to learn, but it is not a one-off exception.

The main stresses are:

• Он
• буква́льно
• повтори́л
• мои́
• слова́

A rough pronunciation guide:

• Он = on
• буква́льно = book-VAL'-na
• повтори́л = paf-ta-REEL
• мои́ = ma-EE
• слова́ = sla-VA

A common learner mistake is stressing повторил incorrectly. The stress is on the last syllable: повтори́л.

Yes. Дословно is also very natural and often even more explicit for word for word.

Compare:

• буквально = literally
• дословно = verbatim, word for word

In this sentence, both work well:

• Он буквально повторил мои слова.
• Он дословно повторил мои слова.

The second one sounds a little more specifically focused on exact wording.