[ plаkhoye nastrayeniye? atarvi i vybrasi ]
🇬🇧 Bad mood? Tear it off and throw it away!
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Доброе утро!
😱 Изверги! Брюса не трогайте!
[ izvergi, bryusa ni trogajte ]
🇬🇧 Monsters! Take your hands off Bruce!
• Изверг (masc.noun)
[ izverk ]
🇬🇧 savage, fiend (cruel and bloodthirsty person)
• Изверги (plural)
[ izvergi ]
Origin:
Comes from Old Russian 'извьргъ' (miscarriage⚠️)
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[ izvergi, bryusa ni trogajte ]
🇬🇧 Monsters! Take your hands off Bruce!
• Изверг (masc.noun)
[ izverk ]
🇬🇧 savage, fiend (cruel and bloodthirsty person)
• Изверги (plural)
[ izvergi ]
Origin:
Comes from Old Russian 'извьргъ' (miscarriage⚠️)
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🟠 What does the Russian phrase ДАТЬ ЛЕЩА [ dat' lescha ] (literally: give bream) mean?
Anonymous Quiz
29%
To give an expensive gift to someone
8%
To go fishing
12%
To escape from a сrime scene
37%
To give someone a hearty kick
14%
It's Sunday, Natalie, let's relax and look at the correct answer!
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• Дать леща (colloquial, perfective, usually about men)
[ dat' lischa ]
Literally: give bream (a fresh water fish)
😅 You won't believe but NO fish is meant here!
Meaning:
To give someone a hearty kick; to strike someone forcefully in the face usually with the palm of a hand
Origin:
It came from the verb 'лещить' [ leschit' ] to split to prick, usually a stone. From this verb came a noun: 'лескъ' [ lesk ] or 'лещ' [ lesch ] which means a blow with all its might, accompanied by a sound like a whip.
🔻It's synonym is:
•Закатить пощёчину (colloquial, perfective, usually about women)
[ zakatyt' paschyochinu ]
🇬🇧 to slap someone in the face
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[ dat' lischa ]
Literally: give bream (a fresh water fish)
Meaning:
To give someone a hearty kick; to strike someone forcefully in the face usually with the palm of a hand
Origin:
It came from the verb 'лещить' [ leschit' ] to split to prick, usually a stone. From this verb came a noun: 'лескъ' [ lesk ] or 'лещ' [ lesch ] which means a blow with all its might, accompanied by a sound like a whip.
🔻It's synonym is:
•Закатить пощёчину (colloquial, perfective, usually about women)
[ zakatyt' paschyochinu ]
🇬🇧 to slap someone in the face
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☆Звёздное небо (neuter noun, 'д' is silent)
[ zvyoznaye neba ]
🇬🇧 Starry sky
When we look at the sky, we may think we are looking at millions of stars, but our eyes, even in very clear air, can only see about 2,000 of the brightest ones.
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[ zvyoznaye neba ]
🇬🇧 Starry sky
When we look at the sky, we may think we are looking at millions of stars, but our eyes, even in very clear air, can only see about 2,000 of the brightest ones.
#brief_and_interesting
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👋 Доброе утро понедельника!
• О, чёрт! (A milder version of that from the video)
[ o chyort ]
Literally: Oh, devil!
🇬🇧 Dammit!
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• О, чёрт! (A milder version of that from the video)
[ o chyort ]
Literally: Oh, devil!
🇬🇧 Dammit!
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🟠 When Russians work too hard they usually say:
Я ПАШУ КАК ...
[ ya pashu kak...] I work as hard ... => (?)
Я ПАШУ КАК ...
[ ya pashu kak...] I work as hard ... => (?)
Anonymous Quiz
6%
... as Spunch Bob Square Pants!
25%
... as papa Carlo (Russian Pinocchio's dad)!
13%
... as Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin!
47%
... as a mad dog!
8%
... as Natalie in her telegram channel!
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[ papa Karla nakazyvaet Buratina ]
🇬🇧 Papa Carlo is punishing Buratino.
Everyone knows the fairy tale 'Pinocchio' and its Soviet version by Alexey Tolstoy - 'Буратино' [ buratina ].
In Russian there's an interesting expression:
• Пахать как папа Карло
[ pakhat' kak papa Karla ]
or
• Вкалывать как папа Карло
[ vkalyvat' kak papa Karla ]
which means to work too hard and too long, to work like a beaver.
• Я пашу как папа Карло, а он развлекается!
[ ya pashy kak papa Karla, a on razvlekayetsa ]
🇬🇧 I am working hard while he is entertaining!
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Photo: Tomsk, Russia
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😍 Северное сияние
[ severnаye siyaniye ]
Northern lights
Unusual northern lights lit up the sky in several Russian regions.
It appeared due to a strong magnetic storm. Its level reached G3 with the highest being G5.
Source: RT на русском
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[ severnаye siyaniye ]
Northern lights
Unusual northern lights lit up the sky in several Russian regions.
It appeared due to a strong magnetic storm. Its level reached G3 with the highest being G5.
Source: RT на русском
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For those who didn't get it
Video by: mogilkomarina
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Do you like buns?
• Булка (булочка/булки) (deminutive/plural)
[bul-ka bu-lach-ka bul-ki]
=
• Плюшка (плюшечка/плюшки)
[plush-ka plu-shech-ka plush-ki]
=
• Пышка (пышечка/пышки)
[pysh-ka py-shech-ka pysh-ki]
Bun, crumpet
BTW an attractive plump woman can also be called 'плюшeчка', 'пышечка' in a playful way. Not that hinting at anything
• Tы ж моя пышечка!
[ty zh ma-ya py-shych-ka]
You're my bun/plump little girl!
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🟠 What do you think the meaning of the Russian colloquial verb НАРВАТЬСЯ [ narvatsa ] is?
Anonymous Quiz
64%
To get/run into trouble
7%
To tear your ex's clothes into pieces
13%
To get stuck in a traffic jam
7%
To have a sleepless night because of your noisy neighbours
9%
Ahh, the only thing I need now is the recipe of those buns! No weird Russian, please!
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• Нарваться (perfective)
[ narvatsa ]
• Нарываться (imperfective)
[ naryvatsa ]
Meaning:
1. to run into something (like scammers, fine, trouble, a rude person).
2. to provoke a scandal / an argument
🤬 Cлышь, ты нарвался! Щас махаться будем!
[ slysh, nu ty narvalsya. schas makhat'sya budem ]
🇬🇧 Hey! You got it (into trouble)! Let's fight!
🔻'Mахаться' is from 'махать кулаками'
[ makhat' kulakami ]
🇬🇧 wave with your fists while fighting
'Cлышь (ты)!' is from 'слышишь'
[ slyshysh ]
🇬🇧 Hey (you)! (Listen to me!)
• Не нарывайся!
[ ne naryvaysya ]
🇬🇧 Don't push yourself (into trouble)!
🎧🗣 👇 listen, practice and не нарывайтесь!
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[ narvatsa ]
• Нарываться (imperfective)
[ naryvatsa ]
Meaning:
1. to run into something (like scammers, fine, trouble, a rude person).
2. to provoke a scandal / an argument
[ slysh, nu ty narvalsya. schas makhat'sya budem ]
🇬🇧 Hey! You got it (into trouble)! Let's fight!
🔻'Mахаться' is from 'махать кулаками'
[ makhat' kulakami ]
🇬🇧 wave with your fists while fighting
'Cлышь (ты)!' is from 'слышишь'
[ slyshysh ]
🇬🇧 Hey (you)! (Listen to me!)
• Не нарывайся!
[ ne naryvaysya ]
🇬🇧 Don't push yourself (into trouble)!
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💙 Очарование вечерней Москвы.
[ acharavaniye vicherney Maskvy ]
The charm of night Moscow.
Photos by: Evgeniya Sirotina (Евгения Сиротина)
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[ acharavaniye vicherney Maskvy ]
The charm of night Moscow.
Photos by: Evgeniya Sirotina (Евгения Сиротина)
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