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    Word for largest and biggest

    What's the Russian word for largest or biggest? Can't find the word in my Lingvo dictionary. Thanks.
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    Re: Word for largest and biggest

    Quote Originally Posted by tohca
    What's the Russian word for largest or biggest? Can't find the word in my Lingvo dictionary. Thanks.
    largest in Lingvo

    It can be наибольший or самый большой or even something else. Depending on the context.
    In Russian, all nationalities and their corresponding languages start with a lower-case letter.

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    Re: Word for largest and biggest

    Quote Originally Posted by tohca
    What's the Russian word for largest or biggest? Can't find the word in my Lingvo dictionary. Thanks.
    самая большая
    самый большой
    самое большое
    и да, наибольшая, наибольший, наибольшее.
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    Is there an equivalent of:
    big, bigger, biggest
    large, larger, largest?
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    большой - больший - наибольший (самый большой)
    крупный - более крупный - крупнейший (самый крупный, наикрупнейший)

    also you can use the word величайший as the largest, the biggest
    Я так думаю.

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    Re: Word for largest and biggest

    Quote Originally Posted by Оля
    Quote Originally Posted by tohca
    What's the Russian word for largest or biggest? Can't find the word in my Lingvo dictionary. Thanks.
    largest in Lingvo
    Thanks for the Lingvo online site. Didn't know there was one. Have been using the PC version all this while. I guess the online one is more up to date.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Leof
    большой - больший - наибольший (самый большой)
    also you can use the word величайший as the largest, the biggest
    Cool.
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    Oops, thousand appologies.
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    Merry Christmas you too there on the peninsula!
    Я так думаю.

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