OLD CARS

[anglychanin.livejournal.com]

How to express in Russian

"That car is a heap of scrap"

It means the car is old, some things don't work, it's probably rusty, who would want it ?

Comments

[annyway.livejournal.com]

Эта машина - груда металлолома or это не машина, а груда металлолома.

[ex-miecz-kai361.livejournal.com]

ржавая банка

[bokh.livejournal.com]

Old, rusty, barely moving car is "ведро с болтами" or "ведро с гайками" (literally "a bucket of bolts/nuts")

[pinky-the-cow.livejournal.com]

Why the hold off? I'd say that the car's a [state-of-the-art] "ведро с гвоздями" ("bucket of nails").


Well, there is such a thing as an ancient art, after all.

[miram.livejournal.com]

ведро с гайками

[krivoshey.livejournal.com]

Literal translation is quite authentic: "эта машина - груда металлолома".

[fregat118.livejournal.com]

I'd say колымага. The word is funny and may be a bit out of date but means exactly what you need.

[burevestnitsa.livejournal.com]

+1.
Колымага means precisely that.

[fregat118.livejournal.com]

Thanks) Do you also use this word :-) ?

[burevestnitsa.livejournal.com]

Well, sometimes, when I see the above-mentioned car ;-)

Wiktionary (http://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/колымага) also offers драндулет as a synonym. Such a wonderful word!

[fregat118.livejournal.com]

Yep! I've forgotten драндулет, but it's also a really cool word :-)

[anafignikvapshe.livejournal.com]

My husband always says "помойка":)

[shlema.livejournal.com]

«Это не машина, а куча (or груда) металлолома».

[thunderstreak.livejournal.com]

развалюха

[iamphet.livejournal.com]

ржавое ведро (a rusty bucket :)

[dair-spb.livejournal.com]

Old and rusty cars my friends calls either "помойка" (lit: scrap-heap, dump) or "ведро" (bucket), иногда "ржавое ведро" ("rusty bucket")

[Joke here! Don't treat this seriously!]
If you're going to sell that car on Russian market you should use phrase "Состояние: хорошее" (Condition: good), like here (http://cars.auto.ru/cars/used/sale/1762883_8944921.html) :-))))

RUST BUCKETS

[anglychanin.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot everyone.

It's quite interesting that now you have told me all these Russian words, I can find some of them in the Russian-English part of the dictionary, but you can't make the link the other way round.

[malim-praedari.livejournal.com]

Рухлядь is another nice word you could use.

[usdcad.livejournal.com]

There's another good word 'рыдван'.

[apl.livejournal.com]

Это не машина, а ржавое корыто.

[umitorio.livejournal.com]

Развалюха

[zeqfreed.livejournal.com]

«Будь проклят тот день, когда я сел за баранку этого пылесоса!»