[identity profile] savageanomaly.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] learn_russian
A couple of phrases that I couldn't figure out how to say in Russian. Any suggestions are appreciated. 

"drooping mustache"
and
"a size too large" (about clothes)

tyvm


UPD: TY to everyone who answered. I didn't realise this would become such a controversial question. ;)

Date: 2010-05-17 09:40 pm (UTC)
oryx_and_crake: (Default)
From: [personal profile] oryx_and_crake
Вислые усы
На размер больше, чем нужно

Date: 2010-05-17 10:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] russian-bob.livejournal.com
Or in one word: великО, велИк, великА

Date: 2010-05-17 10:07 pm (UTC)
oryx_and_crake: (Default)
From: [personal profile] oryx_and_crake
Can you really say "велико на один размер, на два размера"?

Date: 2010-05-17 10:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] russian-bob.livejournal.com
No, not really.

Date: 2010-05-18 04:35 am (UTC)
oryx_and_crake: (Default)
From: [personal profile] oryx_and_crake
I am not sure.

Date: 2010-05-19 08:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] old-radist.livejournal.com
Size doesn't matter!

Date: 2010-05-18 08:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wolk-off.livejournal.com
No you cannot, if you are at least moderately literate.

Date: 2010-05-18 03:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] towarysc.livejournal.com
Мал на размер is OK, why would велик на размер be unacceptable?

Date: 2010-06-30 10:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spiritrc.livejournal.com
I could say "великовато где-то на размер".

Date: 2010-05-17 11:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] khathi.livejournal.com
Висячие, please-and-thank-you. That would be much better.

Date: 2010-05-17 11:28 pm (UTC)
oryx_and_crake: (Default)
From: [personal profile] oryx_and_crake
Yandex gives 4484 hits for вислые усы and 4884 hits for висячие усы which makes me think that these two versions are about equally correct. For example, Sholokhov uses вислые усы for one of his characters.

Date: 2010-05-18 08:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wolk-off.livejournal.com
To me "висячие" sounds like very long moustache with long, loosely hanging ends ("турецкие усы"), while "вислые" are just drooping moustache -- of the sort we'd call "польские усы". Maybe it's just me, though.

Date: 2010-05-17 10:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vovanium.livejournal.com
2. [Вещь] велика (велик, велико), великовата(о|-) (if larger just a bit), размер велик, слишком большой размер...

Date: 2010-05-17 11:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] khathi.livejournal.com
1. Висячие усы.
2. На размер больше (чем нужно).

Date: 2010-05-18 06:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xloroforma.livejournal.com
1. Обвисшие усы

Date: 2010-05-19 05:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xloroforma.livejournal.com
it's the same, but I think it sounds more beautiful and more russian. You won’t meet «вислые усы» in literature, but «обвисшие усы» was normal for Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.

Date: 2010-05-20 06:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xloroforma.livejournal.com
I don't like Sholohov :)
And have you read "Тихий дон" and "Поднятая целина"? His russian language is awful, it's very difficult to read. There is no russian man who can say that Sholohov wrote in russian. He used very many ukrane words. :)

Date: 2010-05-20 06:17 am (UTC)
oryx_and_crake: (Default)
From: [personal profile] oryx_and_crake
I read both. "Поднятая целина" was in our school curriculum. I did not notice any Ukrainian words in his books. Some regional dialect ones, maybe.

Date: 2010-05-20 08:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xloroforma.livejournal.com
Скажите пожалуйста, какого черта я тогда тут перед вами распинаюсь? Могли бы воспользоваться другим ресурсом для уточнения такого вопроса!

Date: 2010-05-20 05:09 pm (UTC)
oryx_and_crake: (Default)
From: [personal profile] oryx_and_crake
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