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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
How to call people from Russian cities and towns?
Surely, we can always say native of... and citizen of...but how to call people from Russian cities without using constructions of such a kind?
f.e. we say: London-Londoner, China-Chinese, Berlin-Berliner etc.
Then how would a native speaker say in English:
1. Moscow-
2. St.Petersburg-
3. Omsk-
4.
4. Lipetsk-
5. Saratov-
6. Nishnij Novgorod-
7. Sochi-
8. Krasnodar-
9. Adler-
10. Anapa -
I'm looking forward for your answers!
f.e. we say: London-Londoner, China-Chinese, Berlin-Berliner etc.
Then how would a native speaker say in English:
1. Moscow-
2. St.Petersburg-
3. Omsk-
4.
4. Lipetsk-
5. Saratov-
6. Nishnij Novgorod-
7. Sochi-
8. Krasnodar-
9. Adler-
10. Anapa -
I'm looking forward for your answers!
Top answer
A native of Moscow is a Muscovite . I am not aware of special names for residents of the other cities. One could make names for the residents by adding -ian , -ite or -er to the names of the cities.
- A native of Moscow is a Muscovite .
- I am not aware of special names for residents of the other cities.
- One could make names for the residents by adding -ian , -ite or -er to the names of the cities.
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A native of Moscow is a Muscovite. I am not aware of special names for residents of the other cities. One could make names for the residents by adding -ian, -ite or -er to the names of the cities.
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Anonymoushow to callwhat to call
Anonymouspeople from Russian cities without using constructions of such a kind?That's a question for Russian speakers.
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Westerners are not really aware of the names of many Russian cities, so they do not coin familiar words to name the residents.
Muscovite
St. Petersburger (maybe)
For all the others:
Resident / denizen / citizen of Novgorod.
Muscovite
St. Petersburger (maybe)
For all the others:
Resident / denizen / citizen of Novgorod.
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Just curious -- what are the appropriate words in Russian for your list of cities?
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I'm not going to give you a specific answer, but as far as I know you can go to Russian wiki, find the article you need and then look for an English variant of an article.
IMHO, I'd prefer using a translit from Russian names of the cities directly. For example, in russian we called a person who lives in Moskov "???????", so I would prefer to write the word "moscwitch" rather than anythi
IMHO, I'd prefer using a translit from Russian names of the cities directly. For example, in russian we called a person who lives in Moskov "???????", so I would prefer to write the word "moscwitch" rather than anythi
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Nelly BoichencoI'm not going to give you a specific answer, but as far as I know you can go to Russian wiki, find the article you need and then look for an English variant of an article.That seems like a pretty tedious exercise to find out what the original poster should be able to tell me in a minute.
Nelly BoichencoIMHO, I'd prefer u
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Nelly BoichencoI would prefer to write the word "moscwitch" rather than anything else.Then you don't want to say it in English after all. It's "Muscovite" in English.
CJ
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Nelly BoichencoFor example, in russian we called a person who lives in Moskov "???????", so I would prefer to write the word "moscwitch" rather than anything else.To be more precise it should be "moskvitch" rather than ""moscwitch" when expressed in the phonetic transcription of the Russian "???????".
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