Big sight
I'm in my second year of learning Russian at school, and will be taking it for GCSE next year. So far, one of my favourite words has to be that for 'sight', which is 写芯褋褌芯锌褉懈屑械褔邪褌械谢褜薪芯褋褌褜, pronounced 'dostopreemetchatelnost'. Now that's a mouthful!
Sent by: Hannah
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Come on, it's only 2 syllables longer than the German equivalent 厂别丑别苍蝉飞眉谤诲颈驳办别颈迟
Oh, come on... it's still not that bad as German "
I am from the former GDR, but was still a child when the Wende took place. Many adults from before that time had to learn Russian. And even though they have forgotten most of their Russian by now, each and everyone still claims to understand one word: dostoprimechatel'nosti.
Yeah, Russian words are generally pretty long. This one is made with two other words: udostoit', to honour, and primechat', to notice. So dostoprimechatel'nost' basically means "honorable to be noticed".
And it gets even better when you want to say you go sightseeing: osmatrevat' dostoprimechatel'nosti.
Re: long words for Hannah - I studied Russian at "A" Level 30 years ago and I think "agricultural" was the longest word we had to deal with.
se'lskohozyaistvenno, or something like that ! I'm a bit "rusty". But it came up quite often, as they like their collective farms (kolhozy ?) !
P.S. My name transliterates to kit = whale !
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