Thread: секс, и другие слова...

I find this word and its derivations somewhat interesting, and kinda amusing, as with many clumsily borrowed loanwords from English.

First off, there is the word «секси». From what I gather, this is an indeclinable adjective... is this correct? Are there any other indeclinable adjectives in Russian? I've never come across any others.

Then we have the word «сексапильный», which I find generally hilarious (it's like saying "sex appeal-ish" in English). Is this a synonym for «секси»? Are there any other words using this root? «сексапильность», perhaps?

Finally, are there any Russian words for sex that are more native than this? Surely you Russians had some words for sex before you stole them from english...

Originally Posted by Demonic_Duck

First off, there is the word «секси». From what I gather, this is an indeclinable adjective... is this correct? Are there any other indeclinable adjectives in Russian? I've never come across any others.

"Секси" is a relatively new development (a matter of years, not decades). You won't see it in any serious dictionary, because it's kind of slang, and not an "official" Russian word. I can't think of any truly Russian indeclinable adjectives.
Personally I do not use "секси", ever, it's too ... lightweight. Some people are too self-conscious (or too lazy) to say "сексуальный" or "сексапильный", which means that you really talk about sex and sexual appeal. When you say "секси" it's something to fill the pause in girlish gossip and it does not mean anything, except that the guy is a cutie.

Finally, are there any Russian words for sex that are more native than this? Surely you Russians had some words for sex before you stole them from english...

I think that "секс" and "сексапильный" was borrowed from French, but I'm not sure. The word "секс" was used in Russian for a loong time, but it had either negative or medical connotations. Nice people did not "занимались сексом", they "занимались любовью". )))

Among Russian analogues there are a very formal "половая жизнь" (= sex life), a very old-fashioned "плотские утехи/плотские наслаждения" and a neutral "спать с" (to sleep with). There are a rather rude slang word "трахаться" (to have sex) and a well-known "е@%ться" from Russian mat. Hmm.. Anything else?

Google search for «секси» comes up with 6,780,000 results, but «сексапильный» only comes up with 64,600. Is this trend also true in spoken Russian? Or are the results skewed for some reason (e.g. transliteration of titles of songs etc. from English)?

сексапильный - Google Search

секси - Google Search

(I was going to make a Google Fight to show this, but it seems it doesn't work for Cyrillic words unfortunately...)

Also as for indeclinable adjectives, I just thought of a couple of other ones... рок- as in рок-музыка, and онлайн. Are these slang too? Or can they only be used as prefixes?

Originally Posted by gRomoZeka

Nice people did not "занимались сексом", they "занимались любовью". )))

Was it said by the person who declared "There's no sex in USSR"? =))

Originally Posted by Eric C.

Was it said by the person who declared "There's no sex in USSR"? =))

Yes, it was the general attitude at the time. "Sex" was something dissolute, and even if you did IT it was not something to boast about in decent compnay.
BTW, the real quote was "There's no sex in USSR... on TV" as you probably know.

Also as for indeclinable adjectives, I just thought of a couple of other ones... рок- as in рок-музыка, and онлайн.

Hmm.."Рок-" is not an adjective. I'm not sure what it is. "Онлайн" is often used as an adverb, and it can be used as an adjective too.. Though some people say "онлайновый" in this case.
It seems poor Russian language has no idea what to do with all these weird words that assault it in the recent years. many Russians are confused too. )

Очень интересно и смешно Спасибо

В русском языке имеются несклоняемые прилагательные, которые обозначают:

1) цвета: беж, хаки, маренго, электрик;

2) народности и языки: ханты, манси, урду;

3) фасоны одежды: плиссе, гофре, клеш, мини.

Неизменяемыми прилагательными являются также слова (вес) брутто, нетто, (час) пик.

Их грамматическими особенностями является их неизменяемость, примыкание к существительному, расположение после, а не до существительного. Неизменяемость этих прилагательных является их постоянным признаком.

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Thanks, E-learner! It's interesting, that all these words are loanwords.

Originally Posted by gRomoZeka

Yes, it was the general attitude at the time. "Sex" was something dissolute, and even if you did IT it was not something to boast about in decent compnay.
BTW, the real quote was "There's no sex in USSR... on TV" as you probably know.

Even if you did... OMG, I hope there's no clone attack from ex-USSR going to take place? =)))

BTW, do you know why sex is better than love? One has to make love while s/he can just have sex.

"Секси" is a sheer calque from English. As you said it, Demonic_Duck, we kind of stole it from you))) Just took the word 'sexy' and it became 'секси'. Now, this word is used mostly by girls in school)), maybe sometimes by boys. I have never used this word in my life))).
"Сексуальный" is a neutral variant. This is proper in colloquial speech (e.g. она сексуальная, он сексуальный), and this could also be used in scientific context (например, беспорядочная сексуальная жизнь).
"Сексапильный" is more common than 'секси' and it's kind of making you sound more proper and serious, for 'секси' sounds very much a slang word (maybe from cheap tabloids).
To have a good command of Russian, of course, you will need to know all these words.
The word «сексапильность» does exist.
Technically, we don't have indeclinable adjectives. If it's indeclinable it becomes something other than adjective.
Рок-музыка is a compound word. Something like your 'airplane'. We do hyphenate all such words however, i.e. 'рок музыка' without hypen would be incorrect in Russian. So рок- is not an adjective here.
Онлайн is a calque from English again. We do have some problems as to how to use it, as it's kind of a 'suckiling' yet borrowed from English, and some people tend to use it with preposition which sounds Russian-like as in "я в онлайне", some say without preposition "встретимся онлайн". So the part of speech for онлайн is not as clear here. I think the proper way would be to leave it English as in 'online-конференция' or 'online-совещание'.

Even if you did... OMG, I hope there's no clone attack from ex-USSR going to take place? =)))

Relax, I was discussing the word connotations from historical point of view. Things changed a lot since then. A LOT.
And I'm not sure what you are referring to with your "Even if you did... ".

Видимо, эта манера - неизменяемое прилагательное после сущ. - заимствована из французского (с большинством таких прилагательных). Брюки клёш - кепи блан. "Секси" явно не из этого семейства.

Что касается глаголов, описывающих сексуальный акт, помимо упомянутых...

Сношать(ся), иметь, обладать, драть, вставлять, впендюривать, натягивать, перепихиваться... Кто больше?

Originally Posted by gRomoZeka

Relax, I was discussing the word connotations from historical point of view. Things changed a lot since then. A LOT.
And I'm not sure what you are referring to with your "Even if you did... ".

Ah, sorry, I should have put that bit of text in quotes... That was your "even if you did IT it was not something to boast about in decent compnay"... =))

Originally Posted by it-ogo

Видимо, эта манера - неизменяемое прилагательное после сущ. - заимствована из французского (с большинством таких прилагательных). Брюки клёш - кепи блан. "Секси" явно не из этого семейства.

Что касается глаголов, описывающих сексуальный акт, помимо упомянутых...

Сношать(ся), иметь, обладать, драть, вставлять, впендюривать, натягивать, перепихиваться... Кто больше?

Дергать, покрывать

вставлять, впендюривать don't work here, they rather describe the act of connecting the device... =)))

Originally Posted by it-ogo

Сношать(ся), иметь, обладать, драть, вставлять, впендюривать, натягивать, перепихиваться... Кто больше?

"Спариваться", "совершать половой акт" (), "делать детей", а также "вдувать", "засаживать", "жарить", "кидать палку", и так далее по нарастающей.
Остальное, что мне приходит в голову, рука не поднимается писать. ))

Originally Posted by gRomoZeka

"Спариваться", "совершать половой акт" (), "делать детей", а также "вдувать", "засаживать", "жарить", "кидать палку", и так далее по нарастающей.
Остальное, что мне приходит в голову, рука не поднимается писать. ))

A guy and his gf are sitting in a bar. "What are you thinking about?", the girl asks him. "The same as you are", replies the guy. The girl says, "Just try it, and I'll shout for help!"

Originally Posted by alexsms

Онлайн is a calque from English again. We do have some problems as to how to use it, as it's kind of a 'suckiling' yet borrowed from English, and some people tend to use it with preposition which sounds Russian-like as in "я в онлайне", some say without preposition "встретимся онлайн". So the part of speech for онлайн is not as clear here. I think the proper way would be to leave it English as in 'online-конференция' or 'online-совещание'.

Hmm... I am somewhat derailing my own topic here (although at least the title does say «и другие слова»), but does «в сети» mean the same as «в онлайне»? I think I prefer the former... it makes me think of being so lazy that you are online on your laptop sitting on the settee, and you sit still for so long that the settee eats you up (you are in the settee).

I love making up stupid stories like this, lol.

Also thanks for the lists of words it-ogo and gRomoZeka. I already knew about «иметь», «е**ть» and «спать с» which were mentioned earlier, but I didn't know any of those other ones

Originally Posted by Demonic_Duck

Hmm... I am somewhat derailing my own topic here (although at least the title does say «и другие слова»), but does «в сети» mean the same as «в онлайне»?

i just heard some people say "Ты в онлайне?" in quick conversations, but it's very, very colloquial, it's kind of accommodating the word to Russian. "Ты в интернете" is the most common way. "в сети" is the same, but i think "в интернете" is mostly used.