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English translation: Preferans or Russian Preference

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Russian term or phrase:	преферанс
English translation:	Preferans or Russian Preference
Entered by:	Vladimir Dubisskiy

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03:28 Apr 23, 2004

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Russian term or phrase: преферанс

the name of a card game

Karina Silver

Preferans or Russian Preference

Explanation:
If you check the Alphabetical list of crad games there - it's Preferans (then they describe - pretty neat- Sochi, Leningrad and other variants (the other colloquial names: "Sochinka", "Leningradka" - general name: "poul'ka" or "poulya").
http://www.pagat.com/alpha.html#p

The name Preference goes with Austrian and Croatian variants. For Russia, as I said, it's 'Preferans' or 'Russian Preference'.

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Vladimir Dubisskiy
Local time: 00:03

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Thanks for the link - most helpful and interesting!
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5 +6

Preference

shlepakoff

5 +5

Preferans or Russian Preference

Vladimir Dubisskiy

marriage

Jura Gorohovsky

Discussion entries: 2

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3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

преферанс Preference

Explanation:
..Preference is one of the most widespread card
games among serious card players in Russia...

Reference: http://www.pagat.com/rams/ruspref.html

shlepakoff
Native speaker of:

Russian

31 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

преферанс

Preferans or Russian Preference

Vladimir Dubisskiy
Local time: 00:03
Native speaker of:

Russian,

Ukrainian

Grading comment

Thanks for the link - most helpful and interesting!

4 hrs confidence:

преферанс marriage

Explanation:
Russian computer games reproducing preference are typically entitled "Marriage".

www.marriage.ru
www.pref.ru/marriage/
http://www.google.ru/search?q=marriage преферанс&ie=UTF-8&oe...

Jura Gorohovsky
Russian Federation
Local time: 10:03
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Russian

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