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Expressions "Нет, я звонила!" and "Я так и знала!" in an answer
I need some confirmation that I understand correctly the 2 expressions mentioned in the title
To be clear, here is the whole dialog (taken from lesson 7 in the very helpful free learning website learnrussian.rt.com). There is translation of…
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How to translate “You are not logged in” into Russian
The computer terms login/logout are commonly translated as вход/выход or войти/выйти. I am struggling, however, with the expressions:
You are not logged in
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Please log in first
I could translate the former as вы не вошли, but вошли куда…
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is 'Молодец! / молодцы́!' always a familiar expression?
I would like to know if the expression 'Молодец!' (or молодцы́!) in the context of 'good!', 'you did it right!', 'this is a great work!' ,'you accomplished a difficult work!' etc.... is always familiar or can be used for example with business…
user4256
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мозг в местном/предложном падеже
Как правильно - в головном мозгу или в головном мозге?
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"Fastest" in Russian with one word
For a multilingual web-site (http://map.project-osrm.org/), I am looking for the optimal translation of the word fastest into Russian. They currently call it быстрейший, which seems to me not really fitting here. I suggest translating it as самый…
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Imperfective or perfective aspect for imperative (example “please choose”)
The word “choose” has an imperfective aspect (выбира́ть) and a perfective aspect (вы́брать).
What is the best way to translate “please choose”: “пожалуйста, выбирайте” or “пожалуйста, выберите” and which aspect should be used with imperative in…
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Words containing "катя"
My friend has "КАТЯ" tattooed on him. It is the name of his ex-girlfriend. He wants to change the tattoo and make it into a longer word that has "КАТЯ" as a part of it. Any suggestions?
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What's the best way to render "not always" in Russian?
For example, in the sentence "Great people are not always wise." I know I could say something like Великие люди иногда не мудрые but is there a more elegant way to say this?
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How do you know when to use изменить/измениться vs менять/меняться
Coming from english, I don't see much difference in meaning between these words because they both translate to "change". Is it just a case of knowing with what situation it's supposed to be used in?
E.g.
менять:
Осенью погода часто меняется: утром…
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Etymology of "стрелка"
When dictating stories on his deathbed some 50 years ago, my great grandfather passed along to my great aunt the idea—which he got from his grandfather, a West Prussian émigré—that our last name, Strehlke, means arrow man. Many years later, my…
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Difference between угрожать и грозить
The dictionary defines both угрожа́ть and грози́ть as “threaten.”
Are they interchangeable in every case?
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uncertainty about some uses of motion verbs
I did a proficiency test recently and I wanted to clarify why I got some answers wrong. In the following examples:
"Летом мы ездим на дачу каждые выходные." -- It's "ездим" / ездить because it's done usually ?
"Завтра мы поедем в Академгородок на…
новичок
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Meaning of пацан
A friend of mine wrote:
Ты скоро будешь разговаривать по-русски, как настоящий пацан.
I realize this is a compliment, however I looked it up in several dictionaries and got a basic meaning of boy, lad.
What is a meaning of пацан in this context?…
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"cutoff" in an integral
Sometimes when physicists compute an integral (EDIT: in quantum field theory), they introduce what is called a "cutoff", which means an infinite bound in the integral is replaced by a finite parameter, calculations are made, and then the parameter…
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Meaning of "Мели, Емеля, твоя неделя"
It sounded like:
Имели мелия твоя неделя!
I heard this line in a movie clip and everyone laughed. A guy went by his office on his day off and said it to a coworker, in response to something she said that I didn't understand at all. It must be a…
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