Single Letter Words

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Hello,

Russian has an interesting use of single letter words that number at 8 and they are: o, k, v, c, ya, i, y, a – and have meanings as follows: o – about eg o kom? k – to eg k komu? v – in/at eg v kom? c – with eg – c kem? ya – I am – I – and - whilst the letters y and a have no meaning but are used in speech, like y kogo – whose - but the ‘y’ bit absolutely has no meaning just like the ‘a’ as in a gde? – where - so it seems the last two are used in Russian providing almost like an introduction to the word – either way I think these two single letter meaningless words are quiet an interesting thing esp as they do not have the same function as the English use of ‘a’ and ‘the’.

And here’s a ridiculous sentence making use of all these 8 sigle letter words:

-O kom vi govrili kogda ya prishol k nimu v tri chasa nochi i y kogo vi sprashivali ‘A gde on hodit?’