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GUEST,Former Russki Spy Help: Russian vocabulary (17) RE: Help: Russian vocabulary 30 Apr 00


Ha Ha, I used to be in military intelligence and learned how to speak Russian way back when.

The word for 'green' in russian is 'zelenie'. Its pronounced zel (as in sell but with a z rather than an s. enie -- e has a couple of dots over (forgot what that's call-- so its prounounced like yo as in yo-yo. nie -- just like knee zell yo knee accent on the 'yo.

But the ending changes with the gender of the noun.

'Field' is polye -- like in 'pole' and 'yea!' Accent on first syllable though.

pole' yea

Put them together though

Zelenoe polye. Masculine adjective gets 'oe' ending.

'oe' is pronounced as 'oy' in 'boy' 'e' sounds like 'yeah'

'oy-yeah'

In the end you get:

Zel-yo-noy-yeah (accent on 'yo') Pole-yea (accent on Pole).

Hope this helps.


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