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    Words that sound the same but have different meaning

    простой

    1) simple. Простой урок.
    2) idle time. Простой вагона.

    more here: http://www.ashtray.ru/main/texts/bonch_ ... omonim.doc

    P.S. Words that sound the same but have different meaning are called "омонимы".

    http://www.distedu.ru/mirror/_rus/www.p ... 2-022.html
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    Задело - за дело.
    И дико мне - иди ко мне.
    Покалечилась - пока лечилась.
    Мы женАты - мы же на ТЫ.
    Ты жеребёнок - ты же ребёнок.
    Несуразные вещи - несу разные вещи.
    Ему же надо будет - ему жена добудет.
    Надо ждать - надо ж дать.

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    Мы женаты - мы же на ты.
    Ударение.

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    Without translation it is all useless for Russian learners

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    Почему? Они переводить не умеют?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marcus View Post
    Почему? Они переводить не умеют?
    Переводить умею, а как можно иностранцу отличать очень маловероятные словосочетание от тех, что по-настоящему можно встречаться в русской речи?

    (I can translate the phrases, but how is a foreigner supposed to distinguish the highly unlikely phrases from those that one might realistically encounter in Russian speech?)

    I think Doomer overstated the case -- the list of homonyms isn't "useless" without a translation. But it is perhaps "intimidatingly long", and it includes a lot of examples that one would rather rarely hear in speech and that aren't important for Russian learners, such as Шпик ел шпик ("The spy/detective was eating the chopped lard"???, according to my dictionary.) It would be a more useful list for learners if edited down to exclude low-frequency words.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Throbert McGee View Post
    Переводить умею, а как можно иностранцу отличать очень маловероятные словосочетание от тех, что по-настоящему можно встречаться в русской речи?
    Переводить умею, а как можно иностранцу отличить очень маловероятные словосочетания от тех, что по-настоящему могут встречаться в русской речи?

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    most of the time шпик means "Hungarian" lard


    sometimes шпик means smoked lard and rarely salted lard
    Salted lard usually called сало

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