Thread: Breakfast translation continues

My breakfast marathon continues...

Hopefully this isn't boring everyone too much, can someone check if these expressions are correct? There are few I just don't know, so I've left them blank.

Thanks!

kettle has boiled
чайник кипел

I fill the kettle with water
наполняю чайник водой


saucepan is dirty
кастрюля грязна

I need to clean it
мне нужно его очистить

I take the scraper
беру скребок


I turn on the tap
включаю кран


I put some water in the saucepan
положил немного воды в кастрюлю


I turn off the tap
выключаю кран


I scrub the dry soup from the saucepan
вытираю сухой суп из кастрюли


I pour away dirty water
выливаю грязную воду


I rinse saucepan
ополаскиваю кастрюлю


I put it on the scales
положил его на весы


I measure out 63 grams of porridge
измеряю шестьдесят три грамма овсянки


I open the lid of the bottle
открываю крышку бутылки


I set the stove to 6
поставил плиту на шесть


I drop the raisins into the mixture
бросаю изюмов в смесь


I move the saucepan across the worktop
перемещаю кастрюлю через столешницу


The banana is under-ripe, but it will suffice
банан недозрелый, но это хватает


I chop up the banana with a knife, and the bits fall into the saucepan
нарезаю банан ножком, и кусочки падают в кастрюлю


I mix (stir) the mixture and heat it until the fruit has defrosted
смешиваю смесь и нагреваю её до тех пор фрукты не разморожены


I bite the dates into 4 pieces
кусаю финики в четыре кусочки


frozen fruit packet
пакет/ёмкость замороженных фруктов - these are sold in thin plastic 'boxes' inside a plasic bag... пакет or ёмкость? Also, its mostly berries, so maybe фрукты-ягоды?


? I turn up the heat
? I turn down the heat
? oven hob ring - I think I looked this somewhere then forgot it, can't find it anywhere.

Originally Posted by grafrich

kettle has boiled
чайник кипел

чайник вскипел (perfective)

(чайник кипел (imperfective) is ‘kettle boiled’.)

Originally Posted by grafrich

I fill the kettle with water
наполняю чайник водой

Originally Posted by grafrich

saucepan is dirty
кастрюля грязна

кастрюля грязная

грязна sounds too bookish.

Originally Posted by grafrich

I need to clean it
мне нужно его очистить

мне нужно её очистить (кастрюля is feminine)

Originally Posted by grafrich

I take the scraper
беру скребок

Originally Posted by grafrich

I turn on the tap
включаю кран

открываю кран

Originally Posted by grafrich

I put some water in the saucepan
положил немного воды в кастрюлю

налил немного воды в кастрюлю

Originally Posted by grafrich

I turn off the tap
выключаю кран

закрываю кран

Originally Posted by grafrich

I scrub the dry soup from the saucepan
вытираю сухой суп из кастрюли

Sounds a bit funny.
I’d say:
отмываю кастрюлю от остатков супа.

Originally Posted by grafrich

I pour away dirty water
выливаю грязную воду

Originally Posted by grafrich

I rinse saucepan
ополаскиваю кастрюлю

Originally Posted by grafrich

I put it on the scales
положил его на весы

положил её на весы

Originally Posted by grafrich

I measure out 63 grams of porridge
измеряю шестьдесят три грамма овсянки

OK, but I’d say отмеряю.

High-precision cooking!

Originally Posted by grafrich

I open the lid of the bottle
открываю крышку бутылки

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I set the stove to 6
поставил плиту на шесть

or …на шестёрку.

Originally Posted by grafrich

I drop the raisins into the mixture
бросаю изюмов в смесь

бросаю изюм в смесь (изюм is uncountable)

Originally Posted by grafrich

I move the saucepan across the worktop
перемещаю кастрюлю через столешницу

???
What for?

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The banana is under-ripe, but it will suffice
банан недозрелый, но это хватает

банан недозрелый, но пойдёт

Originally Posted by grafrich

I chop up the banana with a knife, and the bits fall into the saucepan
нарезаю банан ножком, и кусочки падают в кастрюлю

Originally Posted by grafrich

I mix (stir) the mixture and heat it until the fruit has defrosted
смешиваю смесь и нагреваю её до тех пор фрукты не разморожены

перемешиваю смесь и нагреваю её до тех пор, пока фрукты не разморозятся / растают

Originally Posted by grafrich

I bite the dates into 4 pieces
кусаю финики в четыре кусочки

делю финики на четыре кусочка / части

(кусать is ‘to byte by one’s mouth’)

Originally Posted by grafrich

frozen fruit packet
пакет/ёмкость замороженных фруктов - these are sold in thin plastic 'boxes' inside a plasic bag... пакет or ёмкость?

А plastic box is ёмкость or контейнер.
A plastic bag is пакет.

Originally Posted by grafrich

Also, its mostly berries, so maybe фрукты-ягоды?

Фрукты и ягоды.

Originally Posted by grafrich

? I turn up the heat
? I turn down the heat

прибавить огонь
убавить огонь

(the word огонь is used even with electric stoves.)

Originally Posted by grafrich

? oven hob ring - I think I looked this somewhere then forgot it, can't find it anywhere.

конфо́рка

frozen fruit packet
пакет/ёмкость замороженных фруктов - these are sold in thin plastic 'boxes' inside a plasic bag... пакет or ёмкость?

If it's really a box = might be пачка then, something like this https://yandex.ru/images/search?sour...ted-query-serp

the whole container with its contents = also упаковка Одна упаковка - Перевод на английский - примеры русский | Reverso Context
i.e. упаковка can be both a process and at times a container

https://yandex.ru/images/search?text...=213&noreask=1

https://yandex.ru/images/search?text...BE%D0%BA%D0%B0

Moreover, a container that is contained within an another container, can be called порция because this small container is of specific size for reason (63 грамма овсянки, remember?)

I open the lid of the bottle

One can say also 'I open the bottle', right? In Russian, it would sound more natural, then "я открываю бутылку".

The extra reading on упаковка!
https://www.goodhouse.ru/recipes/blo...ka-pravilnaya/

Great, thanks both, plenty to learn from there.

No idea why I though 'положил немного воды в кастрюлю' was right, it looks silly to me now, as if water is a thing I can pick up and move around on its own.

'High-precision cooking!'
Yes, less waste. Don't like leaving food uneaten. I know how much is enough!

Never heard 'шестёрка' before; is that used a lot in speech?

'перемещаю кастрюлю через столешницу'
I had to make room for the bowl to eat the porridge out of. Crowded worktops, need to tidy up...

'банан недозрелый, но пойдёт.' Is 'это хватает' wrong, or is 'пойдёт' just better, more natural? I haven't heard it used like this before.

'контейнер' maybe sounds best for the things that we buy frozen fruit in, I just remembered we call them 'punnets' (https://www.planetorganic.com/bluebe...25g-125g/1812/ the price of these are shocking, btw)

'One can say also 'I open the bottle', right?' Yes, my version was just bad English turned into bad Russian.

'упаковка' sounds like a useful word for when shopping, not everything comes in a 'пакет' afterall, and 'ёмкость' seems to be the sort of thing you buy and keep, not throw away when it's empty.

'пачка' in google image search turns up lots of ballet dancers in tutus. What a versatile word!

Originally Posted by grafrich

'перемещаю кастрюлю через столешницу'
I had to make room for the bowl to eat the porridge out of. Crowded worktops, need to tidy up...[I]

Maybe,
Я отодвинул кастрюлю в другое место стола.
or
Я переставил кастрюлю на столе.

перемещать and столешница are correct words, but not colloquial ones. Перемещать is too general while столешница is too detailed.

Originally Posted by grafrich

'банан недозрелый, но пойдёт.' Is 'это хватает' wrong, or is 'пойдёт' just better, more natural? I haven't heard it used like this before.

Хватает / хватит usually assumes quantity.
Бананов немного, но этого хватит. ‘There’s not so many bananas, but that will suffice’

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Never heard 'шестёрка' before; is that used a lot in speech?
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1 едини́ца
2 дво́йка
3 тро́йка
4 четвёрка
5 пятёрка
6 шестёрка
7 семёрка
8 восьмёрка
9 девя́тка
10 деся́тка

These words have several meanings.

They can be used to denote a group of n objects. E.g. Большая Семёрка ‘G7 summit’; тройка ‘troika, three-horse team’. This meaning is rather bookish.

Another meaning, used a lot in both literary and colloquial speech, is ‘a figure written out’.
E.g.
большая синяя единица — a big blue ‘1’.
Число зверя — три шестёрки — The Number of the Beast is three 6’s.

In particular, these words are used for school marks. (We have a five-mark grading system in Russia, пятёрка being the best and единица (also known as кол for its shape) the worst mark).

Playing cards (2, …, 10) are called двойка, …, десятка.
E.g. шестёрка червей ‘6 of hearts’.

Things which model names contain number 1—10 are also often called informally using these words:
OS Windows 7 — «семёрка», Windows 8 — «восьмёрка», Windows 10 — «десятка».
Car model ВАЗ-2106 — «шестёрка», ВАЗ-2107 — «семёрка», ВАЗ-2109 — «девятка» etc.

'Шестёрка' also has criminal slang meaning: 'servant/jackal/toady' (scornful connotations). That is low rank criminal/vandal obsequious obeying commands of his master. Like in 'ты же не его шестерка?'.

I didnt know it had criminal connotations, although I had read that it was derogatory. Its a useful one to know nonetheless.

Most common card deck in Russia is 36 card deck:



Aces are strongest cards and sixes are the lowest.
That is why this term was born in the places where cards and guns matters.

Thats another one of those 'I never knew that' things...
Why a 36 card deck? Is it some sort of superstition?

I think 36 cards were more suitable for popular games in Russia.
You can buy 52/54 decks of course, but most of russians throw out 2-5 cards from it.
So if you do not want waste paper you can buy chinese adaptation:

(note that chinese translators made mistake)