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    Uses of the word молодец

    Hello All

    I would like to better understand the meanings of молодец.

    Can it be applied to a women?

    молодца sounds really feminine but of course that the genitive right?

    What's the meaning of simply

    "молодец!" Can you say that to anybody (even a Бабушка ?)

    Удачи!

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    Please, don't say it babushke!
    Teacher says Молодец! praising student (boy or girl) after work well done. Close friends to each other.
    It sounds a bit patronizing, so be mindful of it.
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    Please, don't say it babushke!
    Why not? Молодец бабка! Вкусные пирожки испекла

    Be careful with stressing.
    Молодец - attaboy or attagirl (am I right?)
    Молодец (добрый молодец) - common fairy tale character

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    Молодец can be applied to anyone (including a woman and babushka ) in informal speach. Gender does not matter.

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    Молодец is a short for adjective I think. Therefore Молодца would be the femine form, but it isnt used.

    I've heard and seen Молодцы though...
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    Quote Originally Posted by TATY
    Молодец is a short for adjective I think. Therefore Молодца would be the femine form, but it isnt used.
    I disagree, I think молодца is the same as молодец.

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    молодец is not an adjective! It is a noun.

    You say молодец! to someone when you mean "Nice going!" to compliment or praise a single person, regardless of gender or age.

    If you are speaking to more than one person, you would use молодцы:

    Поздравляем! Молодцы, ребята!

    Just think of this: You the man!

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    No, молодца is used. Towards women, by women and sometimes even towards men! For me this rings a distant bell of the стрекоза-стрекозёл wordplay...
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    Quote Originally Posted by chaika
    to someone when you mean "Nice going!"
    or "well done" though it's almost the same

    Just think of this: You the man!
    You're the man?

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    Quote Originally Posted by alexei
    Quote Originally Posted by TATY
    Молодец is a short for adjective I think. Therefore Молодца would be the femine form, but it isnt used.
    I disagree, I think молодца is the same as молодец.
    "Mолодца" meaning "Молодец" is usually used by people with insufficient level of education. I do not think that emulating wrong expression would help in a language study.

    This is an example of usage Mолодца spoken by an illiterate sailor.

    Это быстрое понимание привело Лучкина в восхищение, и он воскликнул:
    - Ай да молодца, Максимка! Все понимаешь... А теперь валим, мальчонка,
    обедать... Небось, есть хочешь?

    Константин Михайлович Станюкович. Максимка

    Although there is a Russian word "молодица", but it has a completely different meaning. It means "young married woman."

    Правду молвить, молодица
    Уж и впрямь была царица:
    Высока, стройна, бела,
    И умом и всем взяла

    Александр Сергеевич Пушкин. Сказка о мертвой царевне и о семи богатырях.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alexei
    Just think of this: You the man!
    You're the man?
    Nope, this is english slang: You the man!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
    Quote Originally Posted by alexei
    Just think of this: You the man!
    You're the man?
    Nope, this is english slang: You the man!!!
    So what's the difference?
    Like "how you doing"/"how are you doing"?

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    Quote Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
    Quote Originally Posted by alexei
    Just think of this: You the man!
    You're the man?
    Nope, this is english slang: You the man!!!
    "You da man!" surely?

    I mean, if you're going to strangle the language, may as well go the whole hog.

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    Quote Originally Posted by scotcher
    Quote Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
    Quote Originally Posted by alexei
    Just think of this: You the man!
    You're the man?
    Nope, this is english slang: You the man!!!
    "You da man!" surely?

    I mean, if you're going to strangle the language, may as well go the whole hog.
    My favourite expression i heard was "There were bare mans there" which means "They were many men there"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Milanya
    Quote Originally Posted by alexei
    Quote Originally Posted by TATY
    Молодец is a short for adjective I think. Therefore Молодца would be the femine form, but it isnt used.
    I disagree, I think молодца is the same as молодец.
    "Mолодца" meaning "Молодец" is usually used by people with insufficient level of education. I do not think that emulating wrong expression would help in a language study.
    No, the level of education has nothing to do with it. Молодца is used equally frequently by university professors as it is by farmers. Any rate, since this is basically a bit of a word play, people use it only jokingly nowadays, but there's absolutely no social stigma or anything like that attached to it - you're absolutely safe to use молодца as a language learner. In fact, it will make your Russian sound so much more natural and idiomatic.

    This is an example of usage Mолодца spoken by an illiterate sailor.

    Это быстрое понимание привело Лучкина в восхищение, и он воскликнул:
    - Ай да молодца, Максимка! Все понимаешь... А теперь валим, мальчонка,
    обедать... Небось, есть хочешь?
    His illiterateness is marked here not by the use of "молодца", but "ай да молодца" (I'd only say "ай молодца"), "мальчонка" and to a greater degree by "небось".


    Although there is a Russian word "молодица", but it has a completely different meaning. It means "young married woman."
    Молодица fell out of use a very long time ago. Besides, молодица and молодца aren't even related: молодца (at-a-girl!) is a funny play on молодец (at-a-boy!) and молодица is the old feminine form of an equally old word молодец, which means something johncleesianly different.
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    Quote Originally Posted by alexei
    Quote Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
    Quote Originally Posted by alexei
    Just think of this: You the man!
    You're the man?
    Nope, this is english slang: You the man!!!
    So what's the difference?
    Like "how you doing"/"how are you doing"?
    U da man! How ya doin?
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    Quote Originally Posted by VendingMachine

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    Quote Originally Posted by scotcher
    Quote Originally Posted by VendingMachine

    johncleesianly
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    Evah!
    Very?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mordan
    Quote Originally Posted by scotcher
    Quote Originally Posted by VendingMachine

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    Evah!
    Very?
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    Can anyone enlighten me what connotations does "ya da man" have?
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