Thread: How to say "correct" (as in, you are correct, that is correct)

I don't know what dictionary you use, but when you take a Russian word and look it up in a big dictionary,they give many words.

Originally Posted by Marcus

I don't know what dictionary you use, but when you take a Russian word and look it up in a big dictionary,they give many words.

I am talking about the more larger and accurate dictionaries and not some pocket dictionary or small computer program. For example, I use Google translate a lot. I was talking to my Russian friend and I wanted to know how to say "Lets do pull ups on the bar". He said the word for "bar" and I compared to what the google dictionary gave on their translate page. If you type the word "bar" it gives you about 30 Russian words just for the noun aspect! All these translate into 1 English word. The Russian vocabulary is much larger. Well, to get on with this story, the word my friend said was not the one stated in the long list of words. So there is not only the larger vocabulary but also the dictionaries do not seem to give a real life word that a Russian would say. This is where it gets frustrating. This is just one example I can think of. I have seen this many times with Russian.

Originally Posted by Dmemme

If you type the word "bar" it gives you about 30 Russian words just for the noun aspect! All these translate into 1 English word.

Did you even try to translate those Russian words back? I guess it would come up with several hundred English words.

And anyway, that particular "dictionary" is useless for a language learner.

Originally Posted by E-learner

Did you even try to translate those Russian words back? I guess it would come up with several hundred English words.

And anyway, that particular "dictionary" is useless for a language learner.

Yes, of course I did. I always do. That is the whole point I am trying to make. In fact, go try and report back what you notice. There will be a longer Russian list of words and a shorter English list of words. And this is just root words. Not different forms of the same root word as is the case with the Russian language. Like I said before, I use multiple dictionaries and not just "that particular dictionary". If you know of the best dictionary then please share.