Thread: Vocab List

Hi, I'm starting Russian! Yay.

Anyway, the point of this post is that I'm doing Pimsleur Russian and I'm trying to create a vocab list as I go so that I'll actually learn how to read as well as speak. I'm running into some difficulties finding translations on the net though. Online translators are crap, but we all know that.

Here is what I'd like for you to translate for me, please:

-red square
-Daniet(just need to know how to spell it in Russian, and if you could suggest a translation that'd be spiffy too^^)
-to eat (the translators give me есть but i swear in Pimsleur it sounds like "payest")
-at my place (oomeenya)
-at your place (oovas)
-now (seechass)
-maybe later (moijetbuits poja)
-pushkin street (spelling it english like as best i can)
-tuverskia street (same as above)
-with pleasure (sudavolstvin)
-to have lunch (pa abeelits)
-Pronin (proper name)
-what (schto, i know, i can't believe i couldn't find this one on my own)
-two (the translator says you spell dvoi as 2 in russian, thats helpful^^)
-with whom (Вместе svami)

Thanks guys.

Here is my try.


Красная площадь = red square

Daniet
Даниеть

to eat (on a regular basis, imperfective) = есть
to eat (one time, perfective) = поесть

at my place = (oomeenya) correct
У меня

at your place (oovas) correct but formal or plural
у вас

at your place (oo tebya) informal
у тебя

now (seechass) maybe saychass
сечас

-maybe later (moijetbuits poja)
может быть позже

-pushkin street (spelling it english like as best i can)
You spelled it correctly
улица Пушкина

-tuverskia street (same as above)
улица Тверская (I am guessing on this one)

-with pleasure (sudavolstvin)
с удовольствием

-to have lunch (pa abeelits)
Пообедать = to have lunch (perfective)
обедать = to have lunch (imperfective)

-Pronin (proper name)
Пронин

-what (schto, i know, i can't believe i couldn't find this one on my own)
что

-two (the translator says you spell dvoi as 2 in russian, thats helpful^^)
два

-with whom (Вместе svami)
с кем

вместе с вами = together with you

Thanks a ton for the help.

A few followups also:

in tourist, as in in tourist restaurant, the pimsleur pronounces it pretty much like you would in english... check my spelling please: Ин турист

Also, if I want to write "On tuverskia street" what is the proper ending? Are there any grammar lessons on this site or anywhere else that youd recommend to learn this? Pimsleur gives you no grammar but it's the only resource I have right now other than the web.

Same as the previous question but for "in the restaurant." В гестоган (??)

Again, thanks so much for the quick response.

kwatts, the perfective of есть is съесть. Oh, and сейчас.

Originally Posted by Darobat

kwatts, the perfective of есть is съесть

Any idea why in Pimsleur it sounds like the speakers are saying "payest"? Is my ear for Russian just horrible, or is съесть pronounced some way other than "sest"?

Thanks.

Well поесть is a variant, but not the perfective

Originally Posted by Darobat

Well поесть is a variant, but not the perfective

Here's a sample sentance from the lessons I've been doing:

Я хочу поесть что-то(not sure if this last word is how you really spell what they're saying, it means "something" and sounds like koishto).

Would that be imperfective? I'm not even really too sure about what perfective and imperfective are... I guess it's similar to the french imparfait vs pass

Originally Posted by Nathan

Я хочу поесть что-то

I want a bite of something.

поесть is perfective.

съесть and поесть are both perfective verbs. In general you can take any verb and add a prefix to make it perfective, simultaneously modifying the meaning.

есть imp. 'eat'
съесть perf. 'eat up'
поесть perf. 'have a bite to eat'
Хочу поесть = I want to get a bite to eat.

кое-что = "something, and I know what it is but am not going to mention it right now."

Great minds think alike.

Originally Posted by Nathan

... one for a habitual or repeated action (imperfect) and the other for a one-time or specific number of times action (perfect)?

Exactly

Originally Posted by Nathan

in tourist, as in in tourist restaurant, the pimsleur pronounces it pretty much like you would in english... check my spelling please: Ин турист

Also, if I want to write "On tuverskia street" what is the proper ending? Are there any grammar lessons on this site or anywhere else that youd recommend to learn this? Pimsleur gives you no grammar but it's the only resource I have right now other than the web.

Same as the previous question but for "in the restaurant." В гестоган (??)

на Тверской улице
on Tverskaya street

В ресторане
in the restaurant

турист
tourist

I am not sure what you mean by "in tourist".

Originally Posted by chaika

Great minds think alike.

The famous Гостиница Интурист, I presume.
Also isn't it "да нет" ?

Originally Posted by kwatts59

турист
tourist

I am not sure what you mean by "in tourist".

In Pimsleur, the speakers talk about going to the in-tourist restaurant. The guide voice explains that in-tourist is a government run service for foreigners in Russia. They pronounce it like we would in English.

Originally Posted by DDT

The famous Гостиница Интурист, I presume.

I didn't realize there was a in-tourist hotel as well. In Pimsleur they only talk about the restaurant.

Originally Posted by Nathan

"in tourist".

Интурист = иностранный турист

Originally Posted by Nathan

Thanks a ton for the help.
in tourist, as in in tourist restaurant, the pimsleur pronounces it pretty much like you would in english... check my spelling please: Ин турист

It's written together, "Интурист". It's an abbreviature of "Иностранный турист", which in soviet times was a service for foreigners.

Also, if I want to write "On tuverskia street" what is the proper ending?

Тверская.

Same as the previous question but for "in the restaurant." В гестоган (??)

В ресторан.

Also, the whole 'let's eat something' dialogue in Pimsleur (lesson 6 if I remember correctly) is utterly wrong and ridiculous.

Originally Posted by Nathan

Originally Posted by Darobat

Well поесть is a variant, but not the perfective

Here's a sample sentance from the lessons I've been doing:

Я хочу поесть что-то(not sure if this last word is how you really spell what they're saying, it means "something" and sounds like koishto).

it should really be "я хочу чего-нибудь поесть" with a genitive, and "кое-что" can not be used here at all. (as someone already said, it means smth like "i would like to eat something, but i won't tell you what it is"). Pimsleur is wrong here.

Thanks for the heads up on the Pimsleur error. That sucks.

Is чего-нибудь related to Что-нибыдь?

Originally Posted by Nathan

Thanks for the heads up on the Pimsleur error. That sucks.

Is чего-нибудь related to Что-нибыдь?

it's the same thing, just in a different case. It's not a major problem, you would be understood fine if you said "что-нибудь", but it does sound weird to me when it's in nominative.

Вы хотели бы что-нибудь поесть?
Я хочу кое-что поесть, is what you are hearing.