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Spoken versus written Russian
In English and French, words are often times "cut" when spoken. For example, in English we might say "Watcha doin'" instead of "What are you doing". Likewise, in French ...
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Questions about “бежать” and “побежать”
I know that the difference between бегать and побегать is that бегать is imperfective while побегать is perfective. However, my dictionary says бежать is a facultative verb (i.e. it has both ...
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Help translating a sentence - Playing cards
Disclaimer: I'm a true beginner with the Russian language.
I struggle translating a riddle:
I'm between the King and the Queen - where am I?
The ‘King’ and the ‘Queen’ being playing card, it seems ...
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Can стакан сока be used here instead of сок?
In the book Дорога в Россию - учебник русского языка, there's a conversation that describes the scene of buying food:
Мне нравится эта рыба, этот салат, этот сок. Дайте, пожалуйста.
which means the ...
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What is the difference between “число” and “количество”?
In the newspaper Izvestia I have seen the phrase
число случаев
and
количество случаев
For example:
В мире число случаев заражения коронавирусом превысило 10,3 млн.
In the world, the number of cases ...
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What's the difference between навлечь and привлечь?
What's the difference between those two words? Can i use only влечь?
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Russian word for female teacher
I am unclear as to whether the word for a female teacher is учитель, учительница or училка. I believe it could be the first as, although the word is masculine, it refers to a profession and is like ...
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Difference between “объединяйтесь” and “соединяйтесь”?
Background
I recently saw a translation of the well-known motto "Workers of the world, unite!", but when I looked into it, I found out that there are at least two possible translations:
Пролетарии ...
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Difference between шоссе and автострада?
What are the differences between these two words? Is автострада just the same thing, but less used? Or do they have different meanings?
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How do you say “Boyfriend” and “My boyfriend” in Russian?
How do you say "Boyfriend" and "My boyfriend" in Russian?
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Different ways of saying “I got”
I've encountered several different ways of saying "I got" in Russian, but I am a bit confused on the differences in nuance these expressions have. To be clear, my question is about the ...
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Difference between “греть”, “обогревать” and “нагревать”
I was wondering what the difference is between the verbs греть, обогревать and нагревать. If I'm not mistaken all three verbs are imperfective. When I search google images for обогревать, it seems to ...
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Difference between “у тебя всё хорошо” and “ты в порядке”
What is the difference between "у тебя всё хорошо?" and "ты в порядке?"?
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Struggling to find equivalent of “Cloakroom” in russian
I believe in Russia, a cloakroom is known as Garderobe or раздевалка.
However, if I were to used it in a gallery - what should it be called?
Or what should I call a room where they come and pick ...
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How do I say “Outdoor Pre-show”
"Show" stands for "шоу" but I'm failing to find a precise term for "pre-show", should it be just "пре-шоу" or what?
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Possible to use Я хотел бы without direct object?
This quite a short question. I was wondering how to express in Russian the sentence "I wish!" without any direct object. As a silly example, in English you could say
— Have you finished your project?
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How to say “such as” in Russian?
As in, "today i want to talk about websites such as..." or "i like videos such as". And also, the word "said" as in "said websites are good" or something.
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In “феминизм такой феминизм” - what does “такой” mean?
I found the phrase "Феминизм такой феминизм" on an online forum and I'm wondering what такой means here? The only translation I can think of is "feminism, oh feminism" but i dont know.
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Meaning of “Похоже, ты к нему клеишься”
Похоже, ты к нему клеишься
Please let me know, which of the following translation is better for this?
1- Looks like you stick to him.
2- Sounds to me like you're going towards him.
3- Sounds to me ...
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“дочерям их не будет ни в пути, ни при Дворе никаких обид”
The ИСТОРИЧЕСКИЙ ОЧЕРК ГЛАВНЕЙШИХ СОБЫТИЙ В КАМЧАТКЕ. 1650—1855 by Sgibnev, 1869, contains this passage:
Января 13-го 1758 г. прибыл в Нижнекамчатск штат-фурьер Шахтуров для выбора ко двору ...
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Do “целить” and “нацеливать” mean the same thing?
They both seems to mean “to aim”, but dictionaries seem to indicate that it’s:
наце́лить – наце́ливать
which constitute an aspectual pair, and not
це́лить – наце́лить
as I have previously thought....
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Expressing surprise (multiple variations of “I am lost for words”)
Assuming, that I recently received unexpected news that both, surprised me and hit me emotionally. I'm literally lost for words and don't know what to say. I am not voiceless in a medical sense, nor ...
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Перевод слова 'bastard' на русский язык
Слово bastard в значении 4 не ругательное.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bastard
Три вопроса:
Как его в этом случае перевести на русский язык?
Можно ли с таким словом обращаться к девушке или ...
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Word for “activity tracker” or “smart bracelet”
Recently, small wearable devices have become popular to track vital parameters, such as walked distance, heartbeat rate, calorie consumption and quality of sleep. There is a variety of names for those ...
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What does раз mean? [closed]
I searched it on yandex images but there doesn't seem to be a really exact definition? Isn't it a noun?
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Two different pronunciation of “понял”
I just searched for phonetic of понял and found these:
по́нял [пон’ил]
поня́л [пан’ал]
Please let me know that both are correct? and have same meaning as Got it!?
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difference between “расскажите мне” and “скажите мне”
What is the difference between "расскажите мне" and "скажите мне"?
Both mean, tell me!?
And also may I remove мне in both cases?
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meaning and usage of “что ты”
What is the meaning of "что ты" when person uses it during conversation like this:
Это твой папа?
Нет! что ты! Это мой дядя.
It means, what are you saying? or you are saying wrong thing!
And another ...
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difference between “как это устроено” and “как это работает”
What is the difference between "как это устроено" and "как это работает"?
Both mean "how it works"?
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“Сколько времени?” vs “который час?”
What is the difference between these:
"Сколько врЕмени?" and "который час?"
Both mean what time is it, yes? Which one is informal and which one formal? and in which situation can be used?
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вспоминаешь или Помнишь?
Вспоминаешь или Помнишь?
What is the difference between these?
Both mean remember(singular-informal) but two different faces!
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What is the difference between сумерки and сумрак?
As I have been reading about «Ночный Дозор», which I intend to read soon, Wikipedia hinted that those words have slightly different meanings. However, that explanation is very subtle and it left me ...
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What's the difference between “проглянуть” and “проглянуться”?
According to my dictionary, both проглянуть and проглянуться mean to "peep out". For example:
Солнце проглянуло из-за облаков
Солнце проглянулось из-за облаков
Is there a difference?
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Anyone want to expand on what “можения” means?
It is said in a Vladimir Vysotsky song.
Прочь влияния извне,
привыкайте к новизне,
вдох глубокий до изне–
можения.
I believe it comes from the word мочь but I'm not completely sure. I'd be grateful ...
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Aspectual pairs with one reflexive
Normally a reflexivity of a verb stays the same regardless of aspect (not talking about semantic derivation). But I have learned three exceptions to this rule already:
станови́ться – стать (but: ...
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Как воспринимается в сегодняшнем носителем языка слово “автомашина”?
Иногда, скорее в старших источниках, встречаю слово "автомашина", полагаю что его значение это просто "машина", или "автомобиль". Можно сказать, что слово "автомашина" устаревшее? Как оно звучит уху ...
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Difference in usage between “здание,” “сооружение” & “постройка”
I it my understanding that all of these mean a building, as in “man-made structure.” However, I have been told that сооружение and постройка are rather technical. What do they really mean? How are ...
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What is the difference in meaning between “латвийка” and “латышка”?
"Латвийка" and "латышка" are both translated into English as "a (female) Latvian" (or, which in English is a rather archaic form, "a [female] Lett"). But what is their difference in meaning? Is one of ...
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Does word order influence the meaning of this sentence?
Intro: Here is some text where the speaker is explaining their plans for their future education:
Диссертации только после магистратуры и на соискание (получение)
степени. Если всё пойдёт по плану,...
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How to say “moving in to a new house”
I was wondering how you can say in Russian that you are moving into a new house/apartment or moving to a new city (to live there, not to visit it). I find it difficult to find a good translation for ...
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Can a woman be тетка to her зять in any sense of the words?
A woman is not an aunt to her son-in-law, but does зять have an alternate meaning other than son-in-law, or тетка have an alternate meaning other than aunt, such that a woman can be тетка to her зять?
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случаться vs происходить vs статься
Hey I'm confused about the use of случаться vs происходить, as well as бывать and статься. They appear high up on most of the frequency lists I've seen, I've read that случаться describes a random ...
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Lomonosov's three literary styles [closed]
According to Serhii Plokhy's Lost Kingdom, at a time of linguistic-nationalist tension, Mikhail Lomonosov prescriptively defined three styles:
the high style, to be used for the composition of ...
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Difference between “пасть” and “упасть”
I found a source saying that the partner of падать is both упасть and пасть, so I was wondering what the difference between these two words is. So far I could only find a post explaining the ...
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Difference between царь and король?
The only sites answering this question are in Russian text, so I wanted to ask it here.
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Feedback request for this small collection of Russian words
Native English speaker here. I'm building a collection of flashcards to learn Russian (that I will eventually share on Anki) and I'm hoping that someone could take 60 seconds to confirm the accuracy ...
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What's the difference between ничем and ничего?
Both mean "nothing" as far as I understand, so what is the difference?
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Does word “расфокусировка” exist?
I was looking for a word meaning "blur" (as a noun) or "bokeh".
I know the word расфокусированный means "out of focus", but does "расфокусировка" exist?
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How to say “slam a door open/shut” in Russian?
I would like to translate this sentence to Russian:
The doors of the [beduin] tents slammed open and shut in the wind.
I found the verbs хло́пнуть and захло́пнуть for shutting or slamming a door. ...
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“Радио” or “ра́дио”
I was wondering which is the correct form. радио or ра́дио ? I mean I've seen people writing both of them. And I've also seen many letters with this accent above the a. Is it necessary? Which spelling ...
