Words similar to russki
Example sentences for: russki
How can you use “russki” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Advanced Russian-speaking students and users of German have available the major Deutsch-russisches Synonymwörterbuch , by I.V. Rakhmanov et alii (Russki Yazyk, in 1983).
Losing his life savings to a menacingly fey Russian gangster (John Malkovich) in the first 10 minutes, Damon's Mike has you rooting for him not only to get payback from the weird Russki but to take what he can off anyone dumb enough to sit across a card table from him, accepting the rightness of the line "It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money."
A quite remarkable and innovative dictionary is now about to appear in revised, updated, and enlarged re-edition: this is I.I. Ubin's Dictionary of Russian and English lexical intensifiers (Russki Yazyk, orig. pub. 1987).
For this aspect of L2 writing, incidentally, advanced Russian-speaking students of English may have recourse to the excellent English-Russian Synonym Dictionary , by A.A. Rozenman and Y.D. Apresyan (Russki Yazyk Publishing House, 1980); this compendium contains 350 synonymic series, and each article in the dictionary explains the meaning of the lexemes comprising the synonymic series, provides a best approximation translation, and--crucially--supplies a detailed characterization of the similarities and differences between the synonyms, offering at the same time an analysis of the conditions in which each synonym is appropriate and where they may substitute for each other.
The main general collocations dictionary is Slovar' sochetaemosti slov russkogo yazyka Russian Word-combinatory Dictionary), by P.N. Denisov and V.V. Markovkin (Russki Yazyk, 1983).
Loading...