Thread: Three adjectives

Hi, could someone tell me what these adjectives mean?

-Скажите, зачем вам эта работа? Карьеру вы здесь не сделаете.
-А я ее нигде не сделаю. Характер не тот. Нужно быть пробивным, оборотистым, нахальным. У меня этого нет.

пробивным - agressive maybe?
оборотистым - don't know
нахальным - also don't know

many thanks

Use www.multitran.ru it gives quite adequate translation.

I obviously know what these words mean. But can't translate good enough.

Пробивной = Pushy
Оборотистый = dunno... something with turning... be able to backstab?
нахальный = Cheeky

Пробивной - энергичный, достигающий желаемого результата в трудной обстановке, настойчиво добивающийся своих целей всеми возможными средствами. В отличии от pushy в общем-то положительное качество в человеке, особенно необходимое лидеру.

Оборотистый - способный "крутиться", умело использовать все имеющиеся возможности.
...Одни и те же слова могут нести для Вас и для него чуть-чуть или сильно различающийся смысл: например, слово "спекулянт" в русском языке всегда означало оборотистого и предприимчивого человека, бизнесмена. ...

Не знала, что cheeky это нахальный.

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

нахальный = Cheeky

I thought дерзкий was cheeky.

According to my sources is дерзкий = impertinent, audacious

Lampada you made me work for it hahaha I had to look up words in your definition too.

Thanks everyone

kalinka_vinnie made me look up the adjectives he wrote in the dictionary. I never heard of them. Thanks

My dictionary gives me a number of meanings of the word 'дерзкий'. It will take up a lot of space here if I place them all.

Originally Posted by Dogboy182

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

нахальный = Cheeky

I thought дерзкий was cheeky.

Well the root of нахалный is нахал, meaning jerk, so maybe its jerk-like?

Well there's a song that goes.

Я стобой была пьяная
может быть чуть чуть дерзкая
верила тебе - глупая...etc etc


Shes like sayin, we had good times, we had bad times. I wasn't perfect, you wern't perfect.

So just from the context i kinda got the feeling that she means дерзкая as kinda cheeky, impudent (my dictionary gave the definition impudent) which is kinda rude, stuck up... cheeky.

I don't think a нахал is a jerk necessarily, but somebody who is cheeky.

Like somebody who comes uninvited and sits down and eats your dinner is a нахал.

A jerk is somebody who does something bad to others for his own good. A cheeky person just asks for favors when he has no right to.

I think of a jerk as somebody who is just rude. I never use the work cheeky so...

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

I don't think a нахал is a jerk necessarily, but somebody who is cheeky.

Like somebody who comes uninvited and sits down and eats your dinner is a нахал.

A jerk is somebody who does something bad to others for his own good. A cheeky person just asks for favors when he has no right to.

It's like that commercial for A-1 steak sauce...Im sure you've all seen it...the woman is yelling at a man eating dinner at her table "Hey! Why are you DOING THIS? I dont even know you!"..and then the man leaves, and the lady's husband sits down, and says "Did you eat my steak"...

gee hee!

I think дерзкий and нахальный are sort of synonyms when they're used with negative meaning. But дерзкий means "not afraid of taking risks or not afraid to do something new and unusual that many people will find shocking" as well.