"Good luck"

[krepsen.livejournal.com]

How can you say "Good luck" in russian?

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[bogund.livejournal.com]

удачи

[wh00z.livejournal.com]

Счастливо [schasliva]

[kuziania.livejournal.com]

1. Удачи! - good luck
2. Ни пуха! (Ни пуха, ни пера!) - break your leg | i'll keep my fingers crossed.

[krepsen.livejournal.com]

Thanks!!:)

I also have another question:is it possible to say Асыя as short for Анастасия?

[trepang.livejournal.com]

short for Анастасия is usually Настя (Nastya). there is no name Асыя (though there is Ася, which I suppose can be used for Анастасия).

[firstlemonpie.livejournal.com]

My full name is Анаcтасия, but my friends call me Ася.

[krepsen.livejournal.com]

Thanks.
I have a friend in Russia and she use "Aся"

[superslayer18.livejournal.com]

I learned it as "Ни пуха, ни пера!", but that was in class, as opposed to how a native may say it. The explanation/exact translation given was something like "neither fluff nor feather", and has something to do with hunting for fowl I think.

Silly Russians, oh how we love your silly words so ^_~

[radolini.livejournal.com]

Взаимно.

Это поговорка. У нее есть определенная этимология. Просто ты о ней не знаешь, к сожалению. Или к счастью. Так много веков назад желали друг другу удачи суеверные охотники. Сие есть зе сейм гуд лак виш бат наоборот - засчет отрицательных частиц. Не факт, правда, что те это поможет.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

I would love to remind that the working language of this community is English. It is OK to answer or post in Russian, but you are expected to provide translation.

[krepsen.livejournal.com]

I'm not to steady in russian yet, so it would be nice if you could translate into english:)

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

"Ни пуха, ни пера" is not "good luck," it's "break your leg."

[krepsen.livejournal.com]

But "break your leg" is another way of saying good luck right?

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Not exactly, and not in every context. "Good luck" is more universal -- at least "удачи" is!

"Ни пуха, ни пера" is, historically, a hunters' superstition. It is kind of a rite: "[may you go for a hunt and bring] not a fluff and not a feather" - in order to deceive evil spirits of the forest and make them to bebother the hunter with loads of kill :)
I am sure that there is a similar superstition behind "break your leg."

[krepsen.livejournal.com]

Oh ok. Thanks for explaining:)

[farnortheast.livejournal.com]

I think it should also be mentioned that "Ни пуха, ни пера" is said quite frequenly to a person who is going to have an exam, an interview etc. at the moment (as a good luck wish, when a person wants to achieve something). Also, there is a standard reply to this wish: "К чёрту". Although this reply sounds like a curse ("go to hell"), it is used in this context and is polite.

[pochitai.livejournal.com]

а откуда пошло "сломай ногу"?

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

1. I would love to remind that the working language in this community is English.
2. This is learn_russian, not learn_english.

[pochitai.livejournal.com]

sorry
rules accepted :))
i am bi(lingual)
so - where "break your leg" is coming from?

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

See 2. from my previous comment. This community is for non-native learners of Russian. We native Russian speakers are supposed to consult them. This is not a community for learning English or asking questions concerning English language. You may try ru_learnenglish (http://community.livejournal.com/ru_learnenglish/) instead.

[pochitai.livejournal.com]

sorry, i got it (finally)
thank you for your patience

i teach russian language for americans..

[nietzsche-baby.livejournal.com]

"break a leg" is an old theatre saying, sort of to ward off bad luck, by encouraging it so it doesn't happen...
So now you know! Hope that helps:)
It's one of those strange english colloquialisms. x

[pochitai.livejournal.com]

thank you .

[towarysc.livejournal.com]

Silly words? Well, I will probably agree with you, if you tell me how one can learn language where подчинять and подчиняться is expressed with one word (see http://lingvo.yandex.ru/en?text=submit&lang=en&search_type=lingvo&st_translate=1)
=)))

[di33y.livejournal.com]

хуй те в сраку