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    Please help if you can

    Hello can someone translate for me the following into cyrillic:

    Mother Russia

    And the second one is:

    The Motherland

    And one more thing how do you pronounce I, and you in russian.

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    Mother Russia - родина, more like "Motherland"

    Motherland - родина, Fatherland - отечество

    I = я you = Ты(informal) Вы(formal or plural)

    There's been quite a bit of this sort of post lately...Noone minds doing this really, but there are quite a bit of translation sites and dictionaries out there just waiting for you.

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    Re: Please help if you can

    Quote Originally Posted by species8472
    Hello can someone translate for me the following into cyrillic:

    Mother Russia
    "Mother Russia" - you can say more literally, as well:

    Мать Россия

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    I thought noone actually said "Мать Россия" though...??

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    I also think so, but Hollywood film-makers and many American pulp-fiction writers don't.

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    But Россия-мать is OK.
    Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I

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    Россия матушка - would be better

    There is also a pun in the expression like this:
    Любите Родину - мать вашу!
    Пораскинул мозгами, теперь собираюсь с мыслями.

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