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Two Questions about the Russian Language

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Jemascola
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Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 6:12 am Post subject: Two Questions about the Russian Language

1. Does Russian have any words with silent, unpronounced letters, or is it more or less phonetically spoken? 2. I have seen the letter А used by itself in some sentences, but I don't know what it means or what its purpose is. Could someone clear that up for me? Спасиба

vox16
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Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 4:26 pm Post subject: Re: Two Questions about the Russian Language

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Jemascola wrote:

1. Does Russian have any words with silent, unpronounced letters, or is it more or less phonetically spoken?

Yes, eg "солнце". н is not pronounced, but is pronounced in 'солнечный'
здравствуйте - silent first в. But these are really exceptionsm beond the rules about voicing/devoicing consonants and vowel alternation.

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2. I have seen the letter А used by itself in some sentences, but I don't know what it means or what its purpose is. Could someone clear that up for me?

but, not, yet, oh well, eh? , what?
and more

http://www.lingvo.ru/lingvo/Translate.asp?LingvoAction=translate&Ln=1&DoNotSave=0&text=%E0&words=%26%231072%3B&

ed: quotation fixed

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jo-jo-7
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Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 5:47 pm Post subject:

Okay, what is the english word "went" written in Russian? Is it written as "go" ?

vox16
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Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 7:02 pm Post subject:

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jo jo 7 wrote:

Okay, what is the english word "went" written in Russian? Is it written as "go" ?

Context and physical implementation? Speaking about a human walking by feet-

went - шел, with various prefixes ( eg пришел, отошел )
go - идти.

romario
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Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:50 pm Post subject:

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vox16 wrote:

jo jo 7 wrote:

Okay, what is the english word "went" written in Russian? Is it written as "go" ?

Context and physical implementation? Speaking about a human walking by feet-

went - шел, with various prefixes ( eg пришел, отошел )
go - идти.

went - "ушел"... to be precise

Ender
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Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 6:52 am Post subject:

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romario wrote:

vox16 wrote:

jo jo 7 wrote:

Okay, what is the english word "went" written in Russian? Is it written as "go" ?

Context and physical implementation? Speaking about a human walking by feet-

went - шел, with various prefixes ( eg пришел, отошел )
go - идти.

went - "ушел"... to be precise

Я бы так не сказал. Например:

Five years ago I went to university.
Пять лет назад я пошел в университет.

In principle following phrase is correct:

Пять лет назад я ушел в университет.

...but it doesn't sound well.

The exact prefix depends on a source and a target. For example: пошел в магазин, пошел в школу, пошел на танцы, но ушел в армию, ушел в море (про моряка), ушел из института, ушел из дома.

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