Thread: thank you etc

When commending a person for helping you, for example in english if i was saying "Great, thanks", would it be "отлична спасибо", what i mean is, does it make sense, im not looking for it to translate properly, its just ive heard something similar said by Russian's in media and i have wondered what it means.

Отлично, спасибо = Great, thanks

Originally Posted by Оля

Отлично, спасибо = Great, thanks

thanks, in my dictionary the adjective is listed with more endings, i picked a because its what i heard, maube it was unstressed o. is great interchangable with excellent? (what its listed as in my dictionary)?

sorry if this makes little sense, im quite tired.

[quote=An English Guy]

Originally Posted by "Оля":3oihq1g3

Отлично,

thanks, in my dictionary the adjective is listed with more endings, i picked a because its what i heard, maube it was unstressed o.
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Here it is adverbial. Отлично=greatly, excellently, perfectly. Adverbials do not inflect in Russian.

There is also short form of adjective "отличный" = different (from): (отличен, отлична, отлично).

is great interchangable with excellent? (what its listed as in my dictionary)?

They may be synonyms, right? Almost each word can be used in different meanings. And a word from one language rarely has exactly the same set of meanings as a word from another language.

Thank you for clearing this up.