Thread: 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.

ничего

Я ничего не чувствую = I feel nothing
neecheevoh

Thanks so much.

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

"Spasiba" iin advance ?



JK

ничего

How would one pronounce

"ничего" in English?




JK

Originally Posted by JK

Originally Posted by Dimitri

ничего

How would one pronounce

"ничего" in English?




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

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.

This word only for "nothing"

the very rare word means nothing.

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

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

ничто



JK

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.

Ataklena, Leof,

Thanks.


Can you translate this?

ничто

This is highly interesting to me.

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.

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

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!