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Stress on "бродить по свету"
In Евгений Онегин by Pushkin we have:
Бродили по свету. Поздравим
We thus have "по свету́". Here the dative of свет is све́ту. My question is: is "по свету́" an old (or a poetic) ...
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Why is stress in Russian so unpredictable?
In most languages stress and accentuation are fairly regular and predictable - at least in the ones that I speak (English, German, Spanish, French and a little bit of Arabic.) Russian is the big ...
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Stress at the end of verses
In Стихи к Пушкину by Marina Tsvetaeva we have:
Кого ж это так — точно воры вора́
Пристреленного — выносили?
Изменника? Нет. С проходного двора —
Умнейшего мужа России.
According to Викисловарь, we ...
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ду́хов versus духо́в
From this page and this page I understand that духо́в is the genitive of духи́, which means "perfume", and the translation of "spirit" is дух that has as a plural genitive ду́хов.
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What syllable of the Russian surname Орлов is stressed?
Is Орлов stressed on the first or second syllable?
I checked online again and again but didn't arrive at any conclusive answer. Numerous sources state that the second syllable is stressed, but when I ...
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Stress on the verbs like сердить and пустить
Regular verbs that end in и́ть in the infinitive (the stress is on the final syllable) and in ишь in the second person singular, may have a fixed stress (like говори́ть - ты говори́шь) or a non-fixed ...
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Old orthography grave accent vs acute accent in words like какъ, такъ, что, то, чѣмъ
I noticed in old russian bibles, the words чѣ’мъ (іудіѳь 8:26), именны’мъ (2-ая ездры) have an acute accent (ó) instead of a grave accent (ò), since if a stressed syllable is at the end of a word, a ...
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Do other feminine geographical proper nouns ending in the soft sign have the same declension stress pattern as Русь?
Besides Русь, which has stressed endings in the genitive, dative and prepositional cases (Руси́) and stem stressed instrumental (Ру́сью), are there other soft-sign feminine geographical proper nouns ...
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два тела, два села - where is the accent placed? [closed]
When we say "два тела" and "два села", where have the nouns тела and села the accent ? On the first syllable or on the last one ?
I ask this because the noun тело has the ...
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Формы слова "Аде'я"
В словаре Даля есть слово "Аде'я" - "Ад". Ударение указано на "я".
Меня поглощает вопрос - какая будет форма слова для родительного падежа множественного числа?
Ад'ей?
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Do certain prefixes attract stress?
I recently noticed that words вы́вески, на́дписи, вы́прямился have stress on the first syllables. Is it because certain prefixes attract stress? Is there any rule regarding this? Yes, I'm desperately ...
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Какое ударение в слове бурекас?
Нигде не пишут на какой слог ставить ударение в слове бурекас. Слово, как я вижу, имеет корни в турецком и греческом языках, а также в иврите. В google translate на греческом языке воспроизведение ...
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How can I type Russian characters with accents in KDE? [closed]
I asked this question in the Unix & Linux community, where I think it is on-topic but nobody who knows noticed (and answered) it, so I am repeating it here, although I fear it may be off-topic, ...
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How does one hear the stress in Russian words?
How can I hear which syllable is considered stressed in a Russian word? And: how, exactly, should stress in Russian pronunciation be realised?
My problem
I realise that to stress a syllable is to ...
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