Thread: Translation please?

What do you mean as "accurate" and "100% correct"? If you need a word-by-word translation, it will have no sense.
Here is one of the phrases Russian fiery tales are often started from, which means more or less the same:

"Давным-давно..."

It can also be translated as: однажды..., как то раз..., but depends on the context.

e.g. "Once upon a time there was a big brown bear who loved writing software" - жил был большой бурый медведь...

Also in fairy tales it may be rendered as "Жили-были".

Anybody can explain the meaning of "четлан" and "четланин", please?

What do they mean? I couldn't find the meaning of them.

Thank you in advance!