Quote Originally Posted by lexxalex View Post
I'm curious. The phrase is "of number four, Privet Drive".
No word - house, building, cottage. No word - street, road, highway, alley, a dead end.
"Privet Driave" proper name. What does this mean.
Translation is impossible. How to write in Russian. "улица Привет Драйв", "Дурсли or Дёрзли".
"Number X" in addresses in English means "house number". Houses are almost invariably numbered consecutively along a street, so people will know it is house number 4, but they won't know what kind of house it is, single family home, block of flats, whatever. "Drive" is a word like "street", as in "Mulholland Drive", kind of like проспект. I am not entirely sure whether "Drive" implies any size in relation to "street", though. It is clearly a street intended to drive along with a car, that's all I can say for sure.