One-word translation

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March 29th, 2006, 01:45 PM
JK

One-word translation

Could someone plese so kind as to help?!

How would I phonetically say the word "nothing" in Russian?

The context is this: A person feels nothing. No emotions, etc.

Thanks so much.
March 29th, 2006, 01:48 PM
Dimitri

ничего
March 29th, 2006, 01:50 PM
Ataklena

Я ничего не чувствую = I feel nothing
neecheevoh
March 29th, 2006, 01:53 PM
JK

Thanks so much.

Ho wold the one word "nothing" be pronounced in English?

"Spasiba" iin advance ?

JK
March 29th, 2006, 02:01 PM
JK

Quote:

ничего

How would one pronounce

"ничего" in English?

JK
March 29th, 2006, 02:06 PM
Dimitri

Quote:

Originally Posted by JK

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dimitri

ничего

How would one pronounce

"ничего" in English?

JK
March 29th, 2006, 02:34 PM
JK

Wow! Dimitri, you are amazing.

Just one more question: Your pronunciation in the .wav file indeed sounds like:

neecheevoh.

Does that mean "I feel nothing" ?

Is there a word just for the single word "nothing." Like nada in Spanish.

Please forgive me ignornance of the language I find so intriguing.

JK
March 29th, 2006, 02:38 PM
TATY

Quote:

Originally Posted by JK

Wow! Dimitri, you are amazing.

Just one more question: Your pronunciation in the .wav file indeed sounds like:

neecheevoh.

Does that mean "I feel nothing" ?

Is there a word just for the single word "nothing." Like nada in Spanish.

Please forgive me ignornance of the language I find so intriguing.

JK

Nichevo just means nothing.
March 29th, 2006, 02:39 PM
Dimitri

This word only for "nothing"
March 29th, 2006, 03:40 PM
Leof

:!: the very rare word means nothing.
March 29th, 2006, 03:47 PM
JK

Leof,

Is nichevo a rare word?

Does it mean to you "nothing" or "anything"

Is there another word for nothing. Context: There is nothing inside?

JK
March 29th, 2006, 03:50 PM
JK

Can someone translate this word?
How would one write ot out in english?

ничто

JK
March 29th, 2006, 03:52 PM
Ataklena

JK, Leof's kidding.
nichego is the most common word for nothing. You can use it almost everywhere, just like nothing in English.
Anything is что-нибудь chto-neebood', что-то chto-to.
March 29th, 2006, 04:05 PM
JK

Ataklena, Leof,

Thanks.

Can you translate this?

ничто

This is highly interesting to me.
March 29th, 2006, 04:09 PM
Ataklena

ничто and ничего are the same word "nothing" in nominative and genitive cases.
And genitive case can be used everywhere, I think. The nominative ничто can be replased by ничего.
March 29th, 2006, 04:09 PM
Leof

I meant just that every word means something, and there is hard to find any word meaning nothing :P :D

and ничто is more senseful or personificated (I am wavering about the second word though) meaning of ничего.
Ничто means something closer to the Emptiness or literally No thing - nonmaterial or zero(and is often used successfully in poetics, religion and phylosophy).

It is used in common phrases not so often as usual ничего.

And you're always welcome! :D