20 fun facts about the Russian language

Suddenly: the word bull and Bee - the same root. Words beginning with the letter Q , in our language as much as 74. A Guinness Book of Records recorded the word length of 35 characters.

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• Most of the words with the letter P in Russian - borrowed. Pushkin was proud of the fact that in "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" was only one word for this letter - fleet .
• In the Russian language there are only 74 words that start with the letter Q . But most of us remember only the iodine , Yoga and Yoshkar-Ola .
• In Russian language has a word on the s . This is the name of the Russian cities and rivers: Ygyatta River, Yllymah, Ynahsyt, Ynykchansky, Ytyk-Kyuyol.
• The only words in the Russian language with the three letters E in a row - it's long-necked (and other on - sheee: for example, curve -, short -).
• In the Russian language there is a word with a unique language-prefix to - - corner .
• The only word of the Russian language, which has no root, - remove . It is believed that this so-called zero word root, which is in alternation with the root - named - ( CON im amb ). Earlier, about the XVII century, the verb look like vynyat , and there was a material root, the same as in remove, to hug, to understand (cf.. remove , embrace, understand ), but then root - nya - has been reinterpreted as a suffix - well - (in stick, blow ).
• The only monosyllabic adjective in Russian - is evil .
• In the Russian language are the words unique to the language prefixes and - ( up, total ) and and - ( random ; Ustari. «and EIGHTH not lucky» ), formed from the union of and and and .
• Word bull and Bee - the same root. In the works of the Old Russian literature the word Bee has been written as a bchela . Vowel b / s explains the origin of the two sounds from one Indo-European sound u . If you recall the dialect verb Butch , having a value of "roaring", "buzz", "buzz" and is etymologically related to the word Bee , bug and bull , it becomes clear, what was the total value of these words. Dahl offered to replace foreign word environment in the Russian kolozemitsa or mirokolitsa .
• Up to the XIV century in Russia all indecent words called "ridiculous verbs».
• The Guinness Book of Records in 1993 the longest word of the Russian language is called rentgenoelektrokardiograficheskogo , in the 2003 edition - prevysokomnogorassmotritelstvuyuschy .
• The grammar dictionary of the Russian language AA Zalizniak 2003 edition is the longest (in letters) a household word in the dictionary token form - this adjective private business . It consists of 25 letters.
• The longest verbs - be reexamined , substantsionalizirovatsya and internationalized ( All - 24 letters, word form -uyuschimisya and -vshis - 25 characters).
• The longest nouns - < em> misanthropy and Excellency (24 letters; wordforms -s - 26 letters, however, misanthropy is not used in virtually more. h.).
• The longest animate nouns - odinnadtsatiklassnitsa and manageress (21 letter word forms -s - to 23 letters).
• The longest adverb, fixed vocabulary, - not satisfactory (19 letters). However, we must bear in mind that the vast majority of qualitative adjectives in the th / matched formed called by -o / th < / em>, is not always recorded by the dictionary.
• The longest interjection included in the Grammar Dictionary, - FizKult hi (15 or 14 letters Depending on the status of the hyphen).
• The word respectively is the longest pretext. It consists of 14 letters. The longest particle only - the letter short.
• In the Russian language is the so-called defective verb. Sometimes the verb do not have any form, and this is due to the laws of euphony. For example: defeat . He will win , you win, I ... Victory ? will run ? defeated ? Philologists suggest the use of substitute construction «I'll win» or «become the winner» . Because the shape of the 1st person singular, not the verb is "insufficient».
• The English for successful mastering the difficult phrase "I love you" are mnemonics «yellow-blue bus».
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