Noun-noun

[dzhozef-derfler.livejournal.com]

How exactly do hyphenated noun-noun combinations translate? From what I've seen, I think that this is what happens: noun_A-noun_B = adjective_B noun_A, but I'm not sure. Of course, I've only seen this in songs, so here are a couple of examples: Люди-инвалиды, девочка-скандал.

Comments

[orloffm.livejournal.com]

It means "the noun_A that is an noun_B".

[yms.livejournal.com]

Yes, something like this.

[dzhozef-derfler.livejournal.com]

So, those translate as "Cripple/Invalid people" and "scandal girl"?

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. A stupid example from my Soviet childhood, a noun-noun combination which entitled a series of portraits that hung in every Soviet high school: Пионеры-герои (the members of Young Pioneers [communist children organization] who were the heroes, i.e. died in the World War Two helping the Red Army or the guerilla resistance against the Nazis.)

[monarchistka.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's almost always so.
But sometimes there is no adjective corresponding with the NOUNb, so it can be also:
NOUN (somebody/something) = NOUNa "which is" NOUNb ["as well"].
The pioneers from the previous message for example were heroes of the SU (that's more exactly than "heroical").
"Пионеры, которые были героями [Советского Союза]" - лучше, чем "героические пионеры".
Excuse me for my English. :)

[dzhozef-derfler.livejournal.com]

Ok. Thanks