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Nyet

English translation: нет - No

04:10 Oct 23, 2004

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Russian term or phrase: Nyet

I have no idea how the word is used, I am russian and would like to know more about my language.

Heather

English translation:нет - No

Explanation:
Нет - It looks like No to me...

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Larissa Dinsley
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:29

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Summary of answers provided

4 +12

нет - No

Larissa Dinsley

4 +4

Нет (negation)

ttagir

Discussion entries: 2

Answers

8 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +12

нет - No

Explanation:
Нет - It looks like No to me...

Larissa Dinsley
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:29
Native speaker of:

Russian,

Ukrainian

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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Rowan Morrell: She doesn't know that "nyet" means "no" in her own language???

6 mins

agree

Kirill Semenov

1 hr

agree

Yuri Smirnov

2 hrs

agree

Kurt Porter: This has got to be a joke. My non-Russian speaking 6-year old knows what , "da, net, poka and privet" mean just by listening to my friends and I.

2 hrs

agree

mk_lab

3 hrs

agree

Sergey Strakhov

3 hrs

agree

Sara Noss: I agree, but I had to think about it for a long time. ;-))

4 hrs

agree

Olga B: Maybe it is a catch? It can't be serious.

4 hrs

agree

Alexey Slokvenko

7 hrs

agree

GaryG: Even monolingual Americans know this word

8 hrs

agree

Mikhail Kropotov: to Rowan, Gary & Kurt: some and maybe even many do, but how many would be positive about knowing all its possible meanings?

8 hrs

agree

Yelena.

261 days

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

Нет (negation)

Explanation:
Negation. As for examples,
U menуa net vremeni = I have no time
U menya net nikogo blizhe tebya = Nobody is more intimate to me but you
In polite interrogative sentences it is also used:
Net li u Vas spichek? - Do you have matches?
Skazhem "Nyet" voine! = Let us say "No" to war!
Na "net" i suda net = No sense to judge something gone all (absent)
etc.
To know more about language you may try to find and order some books or courses (say, Russian for Foreigners, etc.):
dotsmedia.ru/mrl/
www.language-learning.ru/ruslang_for.shtm
www.ozon.ru/context/school_ catalog_list/catalog/1072081
www.kmsvrn.ru/view_roub.asp?id_roub= 30
www.links-guide.ru/sprachen/ slavistik/russkiy-kursy.html
eduvera.spb.ru/rus_lang.shtml
etc.
Luck!
Yours
T.

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Note added at 1 hr 27 mins (2004-10-23 05:37:50 GMT)
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About those questions: ca. ~how a Russian can know nothing about a Russian word?. People simply cannot understand that \"a Russian man/woman\" is not the same notion as \"a person knowing Russian language\":)))
T.

pls see above

ttagir
Local time: 23:29
Native speaker of:

Russian,

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