Hello!

When a word has just one syllable with 1 vowel isn't that vowel automatically stressed? I have a book with Russian colloquialisms and one that is covered is: не за что, which is supposed to mean "Don't mention it." The author points out the importance of proper stress with this particular example saying it should be pronounced: NYE za chto (stress on CAPS) as opposed to nye za CHTO which means something like "No way, no how."

The problem for me is that this is not a 3 syllable word. It is three one syllable words. Stress isn't so much emphasizing a syllable as it is determining how to pronounce the vowel and aren't all of the vowels pronounced as stressed?

How would one say "Don't mention it" vs "No way, no how?"

Many thanks!

Randy