Questions tagged [перевод]
All questions about translation of words, phrases, idioms or collocations from English to Russian. Read the FAQ section about translations; questions asking for translations are off-topic unless prior research effort is clearly indicated.
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What does "внушать себе" mean?
What does "внушать себе" mean?
The sentence goes as follows:
"Кровать подо мною подымалась, опускалась и вновь подымалась - плыла по синусоиде. Я внушал себе: "Ночью - нумера ...
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Distinguishing between "effectiveness" and "efficiency" in Russian
The Russian translation for "effectiveness" seems to be "эффективность", a word that sounds pretty similar to "effectiveness" and also initially would seem to be able to ...
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2 x 2 = 4 or 2 + 2 = 4 as an evident fact?
In Tolstoy's Исповедь one reads :
Истина эта была всегда истина, как 2 × 2 = 4, но я не признавал ее, потому что, признав 2 × 2 = 4, я бы должен был признать то, что я нехорош.
2 x 2 = 4 is ...
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What is the Russian equivalent of 'perfect is as perfect does'?
I've encountered this saying multiple times in English, but even though I'm a native Russian speaker, I can't find an exact equivalent of this saying in Russian.
Perhaps someone here knows?
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What is the difference semantically between речь and выступление?
I believe both речь and выступление can have the same shade of meaning that the word "speech" does in English (not as in an utterance, but as in a formal address you give before an audience)....
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What kind of word is this? "случи́вшемся"
Grammatically and morphologically speaking, what kind of word is this? "случи́вшемся" in the following sentence:
Поговори́ с сы́ном о случи́вшемся.
ChatGPT says: The word "случи́вшемся&...
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Translation of "ради Бога" [closed]
For "ради Бога" dictionaries give "for goodness' sake" and "for heaven's sake" as well as "for God's sake." As expressions that support a request, the first two ...
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"damage" and "to do damage" in video games context
I'm making a YouTube video game guide and I'm adding Russian subtitles to expand my audience. As you know, video games use phrases like "damage", "to do damage" and "deal ...
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Why мне всё мало is "I'm not enough" and not "Nothing is enough for me"?
At least on Google Translate, "мне всё мало" is "I'm not enough", which is something I cannot understand. Judging from other uses of the dative case and the word мне, I understand ...
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Understanding a job posting "Если у вас есть суперсила, расскажите о ней в отклике."
От нас:
Интересная исследовательская работа, возможность создавать новые
нестандартные решения в области работы с данными
Высокая заработная плата - фикс + бонусы (обсуждается индивидуально с
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How to translate "Adorkable" into Russian?
The word "Adorkable" is a portmanteau of "Adorable" and "Dork." That neatly encapsulates this trope. Adorkable characters are "dorky" in some fashion. Maybe ...
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What's the Russian expression for 'Well, duh!"?
Slang used to indicate that a statement is obvious, or that the answer to a question is an obvious "yes" — often in a derisive or sarcastic way.
"Physics is really hard." "...
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What's the deal with this tattoo? [closed]
I saw the following picture: Link
As I see it, the text in the tattoo says:
в воду нечего бояться дождя
This seems odd to me. "Бояться дождя" definitely means "to be afraid of rain,&...
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when to use adjective and noun versus noun and a genitive noun
I tried to form the English sentence "he is public enemy number one" and came up with «Он общественный враг номер один», but google prefers «Он враг общества номер один», which to me means ...
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What's the meaning of "было" in these contexts/sentences?
I'm wondering what the purpose and meaning of "было" is in these sentences, and if it is a conjugation of "быть" or a separate word. The word "было" meaning "there ...
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How to detect automated translations? [closed]
I got a translation from a translator which I found online and feel like they might not know Russian at all and just used some of the services like Google translate. I wonder if there is some way to ...
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What does Putin say in Russian that is translated "lead you to such consequences that you have never faced in your history" [closed]
In this short video (starting at 0:50 point) Putin warns that interference with his "special operation" would lead you to such consequences that you have never faced in your history.
What is ...
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Why is the word "тот" used in this sentence and why is it in the dative case?
Here's the text from my book:
-У вас есть стихи Лермонтова?
-Нет, к сожалению, стихи Лермонтова проданы.
-Но ведь они были несколько дней тому назад!
-Да, но всё уже продано.
I don't understand the ...
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Возможно ли смоделировать в русском истинно "Yoda style", чтоб он звучал так же страннейше как в английском?
По-моему, это невозможно - смоделировать в русском истинно "Yoda style", чтоб он звучал так же страннейше (полагаю, не ошибаюсь) как в английском.
Учитывая, что русский - язык флективно-...
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Is there any way to differentiate a "cat's hat" from a "cat-shaped hat"?
In English, we have two identical phrases that could mean two different things: a "cat hat" (a hat one buys to put onto a cat), and a "cat-hat" (a hat that looks like a cat's head.)...
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What is the difference between "Куда ты идёшь?" and "Куда ты собрался?"
I recently learned that
Куда ты собрался?
usually gets translated as
Where are you going?
Or, at least it does on Reverso.
This raised at least a couple of questions for me. The first is the ...
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What are the different usages for these translations of "to type" (as in on a computer keyboard)?
My dictionary's translations of "to type" are, unfortunately, quite verbose:
2 (write with typewriter) печа́тать (impf) (на маши́нке) / напеча́тать (pf) (на маши́нке); (write with computer ...
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Meaning of хрястув in хрястув по душегубцу
The context in which I encountered it is a sentence in Solzhenytsin's Gulag Archipelago (GA) :
Ведь заранее известно, что эти ночные картузы не с добрыми намерениями
идут - так не ошибешься, хрястув ...
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Understand why this is a joke
I can read Russian, and understand mostly what is written here:
But what I fail to see is why this is a joke? What makes it funny?
I am interested what am I missing in understanding in this joke that ...
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What's the Russian for suspenders/garter belt?
I'm looking for the specific, correct Russian translation for suspenders/garter belt — the kind a lady wears when she wants to be sexually provocative. I'm explicitly looking for this kind of lingerie,...
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Russian translation for "I'm looking for a long-term relationship"
Basically, what I'm asking is:
How do I say "I'm looking for a long-term relationship" in Russian?
As far as I can see, it would be something like:
Я ищу долгосрочные отношения.
However, ...
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What is the difference between "в ходе" and "во время" if both can be used to mean "during"?
I wish I could provide more context, but too much time has passed and I can't remember, exactly, what it was I was trying to say. It might have been something like ...
During the summer my Spanish ...
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What is this Russian word which means "just a sec"?
I am looking for a word I heard already several Russian people say and that yet I can’t find on any translation platform. This word sounded like «час», or «счас», in the context of «give me a sec», or ...
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Do Russians really use "Расход!" to say, "Let's go!"?
I was watching an episode of Better Than Us" (Лучше, чем люди) in Russian with English subtitles. Since I was actively watching, to the extent of making a vocabulary list from it, I noticed that ...
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How do I ask "Really?" in Russian?
I already speak a fair bit of Russian.
In a classroom where I often study, I once wrote «покой» on the blackboard. When I came back on another day, someone had completed what I had written on the ...
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What is the best Russian equivalent for "savory"?
One of the words English uses to describe food is this word called "savory":
From dictionary to dictionary, the definitions found are something like this:
pleasing to the taste or smell; ...
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What is a common Russian expression from someone who is in pain, like 'Ouch' but stronger?
I'm writing a short story with a Russian character who is getting a tattoo in an English speaking country. There is a moment where the tattoo will be particularly painful, and she will make some kind ...
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Need help with Russian interjections, figures of speech
I'm trying to find Russian equivalents for the following interjections/expressions:
"Don't!" (when we very much don't want someone to do something)
"No!" (to express dismay)
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What does this phrase mean? [ Ты здал его шарадами?]
I received it in a congratulations card from a relative who knows I'm learning Russian. I tried to translate it but the best I got was 'Have you [verb]ed him with the charades?' The phrase is (to my ...
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The full counterpart of 'night' in Russian
So, I've stumbled upon an interesting question and, being a native speaker of Russian, I don't know the accurate answer.
In English, there exists a word night. It means the period from sunset to ...
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Difference between "Мы в путь" and "Нам в путь"?
I found a phrase in Russian that said "Снова нам в путь", meaning "We're on our way again". I didn't quite understand why it used the dative Нам instead of the nominative Мы.
I ...
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Рисовать: drawing or painting?
The phrase "что он рисует?" is translated as "what is he drawing?". I'm interested in why not 'paint'? It seems to me that to paint and to draw is kind of the same in Russian? If ...
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When to Use Imperfective or Perfective Imperative.. if at all?
I am having a difficult time determining when to use the imperative mood and what the difference between imperfective and perfective is...
The verb "to die" is a difficult one because is it ...
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Russian numbers (in the thousands)
I've been consulting the official website of the city of Dushanbe and found the following interesting passage:
Согласно данным органов ЗАГС-а с 2005 по 2014 год в городе Душанбе
зарегистрировано ...
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Как перевести "belief" в философском смысле
Как принято переводить философское понятия "belief" на русский язык?
Описания этого термина из Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
Contemporary Anglophone philosophers of mind generally ...
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Сорьян = sorry?
I was recently working at a Russian startup with a low median age - most of the employees were under 30. I cannot count the number of times I heard folks saying "сорьян" to each other, but ...
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Is the expression "По рассказам" idiomatic?
I was trying to translate a song called "город устал" by "плохо", and one of the lines of the song says:
По рассказам всё было, но ты опоздал
I tried to get a word by word ...
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Strange use of 'и': для этого и делается
I was listening at Navalny's phone call and at some point he says:
ровно для этого и делается доклад
It is supposed to translate to:
this is exactly what the report is for
What I understand so far:...
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"Ищи меня" - why not "ищи мне"? [closed]
The translator say "ищи меня" means "search for me".
At first I thought, okay, this seems correct because ищи is the imperative of искать.
However, my dictionary say that you use ...
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Как перевести на русский слово "prepster"?
Слово образовано из слияния preppy + hipster. Словарь дает такое определение: "культурный маргинал, сочетающий консервативное и либеральное". Preppy = старомодный, hipster = неформал (...
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What would be the Russian word for "ownership"?
What would be the Russian word for "ownership", in the meaning of owning a topic or a task and not owning property?
The best equivalent I've found is "oтветственность". However, &...
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"Reading up" on а subject
I would like to know the conventional and/or colloquial way in Russian to express that one is reading up on a subject. In English, to read up on/about something means to inform oneself about a ...
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"How is that like for you?" in Russian
So the kind of situations I am thinking is in these kinds of contexts:
"How was that like for you to give a presentation in front of your class?"
"How is that like for you to be a ...
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Word “panhandle” translation to Russian
Panhandle is a narrow strip of territory projecting from the main territory of one state into another state.
Google translates panhandle as попрошайка, попрошайничать (beggar, beg). Is there a one ...
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