| Subject | Date Asked |
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| Translation | 10/21/2009 |
Q: One of my friends sent me this message in Russian, but I can not find a translator to read it. Can ...
A: Not knowing the context, here's what I make of this: You're simply a young person to me! Yes, ...
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| Mayakovsky | 9/27/2009 |
Q: Do you know what these two words mean? ...
A: Yes, I'm sure that you're right about ...
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| Name translation | 9/26/2009 |
Q: I would like to know how to spell the name Tracey Spears in Russian and how to pronounce it. Many ...
A: I presume you'll want it in Cyrillic. Phonetically, it'd be ...
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| pronunciation of russian places and personalities if ww2 | 8/11/2009 |
Q: i m capt in pak army. i,ve interest in ww2. however in russian campaigns its very difficult to ...
A: Salaam aleikum, Captain! I can sympathize with you, as Cyrillic is not the alphabet I grew up with ...
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| Russian Proverb | 4/12/2009 |
Q: Do you know the English equivalent of this Russia proverb: кому ...
A: Кому́ война́, а ...
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| Pronunciation | 2/9/2009 |
Q: How would you pronounce the name Danny in Russian? or anything close actually.
A: The Russian equivalent of Daniel is "Daniil". It's not a common name so I'm not sure of all the ...
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| What did I find? | 1/27/2009 |
Q: I am a surfer in New York. While in the water, I found a sealed bottle with a label written in a ...
A: It's a chemical container. The end of the word is "...butylphthalate". Hopefully it doesn't contain ...
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| surname suffixes | 1/12/2009 |
Q: My father is said to have decended from the Ugric Hungarians of whom, can be found living in the ...
A: Frankly, this is a question about Ukrainian. I've seen the suffix before but do not know its meaning ...
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| Translation | 1/12/2009 |
Q: I made my friend a bet that I could find the translation for this phonetic exchange. Can you help me ...
A: Literally, it's "make the legs/feet Saturday morning" (Russians don't separate the concept of "leg" ...
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| Russian Alphabet | 8/3/2008 |
Q: I am in the process of teaching myself Russian with Rosetta Stone software. It is going well so far. ...
A: Hmmm, I'm unfamiliar with the Rosetta Stone method although an ad I recently saw indicated that it ...
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| New Physician from ST. Petersburg | 6/2/2008 |
Q: How to pronounce "Inna Malostovker"? Thanks!
A: Well, it's hard to approximate Russian sounds without a generally-accepted phonetic representation. ...
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| Russian to English translation | 3/5/2008 |
Q: Could you translate the following conversation for me? Marina wrote: Privet Maksim, Kak dela? ...
A: Oleg said on February 13th: Greetings, how are things? I wasn't at work for a couple of days since ...
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| Russian to English translation | 3/4/2008 |
Q: Could you translate the following conversation for me? Marina wrote: Privet Maksim, Kak dela? ...
A: Marina wrote: Greetings Maksim, How are things? I tried to [send - word seems to be corrupted] ...
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| Pronunciation Question | 3/3/2008 |
Q: How do you say "Snow Dog" or "White Dog" in Russian? Thank you ANSWER: White dog is ...
A: I had somewhat the same situation in 1982 when I adopted a (mostly) white cat. My knowledge of ...
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| Translation | 1/21/2008 |
Q: Could you please translate this letter into russian . Thank you. ...
A: Dan, I'm a native speaker of English, not Russian, and thus normally translate only from Russian to ...
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