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    Stuck on this greeting

    Can anybody help with this simple phrase? I can't find it anywhere....Thanks

    "Do vidzeniya"

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    Good bye.
    Until we meet again.

    This is a Russian board.

    Do widzienia -- język polski.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chaika
    Do widzienia -- język polski.
    Chaika means it is polish, not russian.
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    I see

    Sorry,

    I've been conversing with a Russian Lady and told her that I was of Polish ancestry. I can't speak Polish either.

    I appreciate your time and help though.

    Thanks

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    In Russian it means: Da svidanya
    До свиданья
    Vrei să pleci dar nu ma, nu ma iei
    Nu ma, nu ma iei, nu ma, nu ma, nu ma iei
    Chipul tau si dragostea din tei
    Mi-amintesc de ochii tai

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    As one Polak to another - I thought you knew Russian and thus could decipher my explanation of язык польский, which I wrote in Polish.

    If you don't know Russian and you don't know Polish... -- I won't ask.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Евгения Белякова
    In Russian it means: Da svidanya
    До свиданья
    Erm..... До свидания
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    Quote Originally Posted by TATY
    Quote Originally Posted by Евгения Белякова
    In Russian it means: Da svidanya
    До свиданья
    Erm..... До свидания
    I think you can also spell it as "свиданья". Don't ask me why, because I don't know

    But I have seen other words spelled in that unusual way...

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    You are right that you can spell до свиданья but it is incorrect. Many people don't know how to spell words like свидание и воскресение, therefore they spell them in that unsual way. That's why!
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    I feel some clarification is due to avoid confusion (though it's a tiny point really). There is no word свиданье in Russian, only свидание, hence до свидания is correct, до свиданья is not, but I bet noone is going to sue you for that common mistake.

    Both words воскресенье (Sunday) and воскресение (resurrection) do exist, so misusing them could technically create some confusion (in practice however I really don't know how one can be taken for another, unless you are a member of some freaky cult writing letters to your comrades in idiocy).
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    Quote Originally Posted by adoc
    I feel some clarification is due to avoid confusion (though it's a tiny point really). There is no word свиданье in Russian, only свидание, hence до свидания is correct, до свиданья is not, but I bet noone is going to sue you for that common mistake.
    "Cвиданье" (and "до свиданья") is hardly a mistake, it is more like a (less common and less formal) variant of spelling. "Свиданья час условлен" (Грибоедов) "До свиданья, друг мой, до свиданья". (Есенин). There is also a curious example of using both forms in the same line: "До свиданья лето, до свидания, на тебя напрасно я надеялась" (Л. Дербенёв).

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    Well then it's even easier than I thought.
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    Quote Originally Posted by adoc
    Both words воскресенье (Sunday) and воскресение (resurrection) do exist, so misusing them could technically create some confusion
    I think it's the same word, actually. Воскресенье is a day of воскресение Христа

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    This "-нье" variant is just an archaic form. Modern standard variant is "-ние". "Воскресенье" (Sunday) is, apparently, an exception.
    Quote Originally Posted by Орфографический словарь русского языка
    воскресенье (день недели)
    воскресение (от воскреснуть)
    воскрешение (от воскресить)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rostova
    I think it's the same word, actually. Воскресенье is a day of воскресение Христа
    They are not the same word albeit closely etymologically related.
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    Quote Originally Posted by adoc
    Quote Originally Posted by Rostova
    I think it's the same word, actually. Воскресенье is a day of воскресение Христа
    They are not the same word albeit closely etymologically related.
    Makes sense. Two different words, closely related:

    воскресенье- the Sabbath day and воскресение- resurrection, for obvious reasons.

    Unless I've made a wrong connection here, though it looks very plausible to me.
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    I think Суббота is closer to Sabbath!
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    I wondered that too... mainly because of the double lettering and starting letter. But воскресенье just is the sabbath day.
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    Quote Originally Posted by волк
    I wondered that too... mainly because of the double lettering and starting letter. But воскресенье just is the sabbath day.
    The original sabbath day happened to be a Saturday. But the Christians made the Sunday their day of rest.

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    Quote Originally Posted by синичка
    The original sabbath day happened to be a Saturday. But the Christians made the Sunday their day of rest.
    Yes, the Jewish Sabbath is on Saturday and the Christian Sabbath is on Sunday.
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