How to say (write) in Russian: 4th (5th, 6th etc.) great grandfather?

[dima75.livejournal.com]

Hello everybody!
Do anybody know how to say (write) in Russian: 4th (5th, 20th etc.) great grandfather?
прапрапрапрадед doesn't hears good.

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[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Please note that this community is not exactly oriented on native Russian speakers who seek to improve their language skills -- it's rather for those non-natives who study Russian as a foreign language. Maybe it's better to try pishu_pravilno instead.

As for your question, there is nothing wrong with "прапрадед" and even "пра-пра-прадед", but going back for more than five generations this formula becomes really weird. Maybe it's better to put it as "мой предок в N поколении".

[shlema.livejournal.com]

I think you can say "Предок в N-м (пятом, шестом, двадцатом) поколении/колене" ("Ancestor in the N (fifth, sixth) generation".

[megazoid.livejournal.com]

в №№ колене

[4px.livejournal.com]

when N doesn't matter - just "прапрадед" or even "прадед"

[the-sunn.livejournal.com]

Пращур.

[archaicos.livejournal.com]

Great word! Never knew its meaning despite speaking Russian natively. :) But it gets even better when you start translating it into other languages. Found a few nice variants in Spanish. :)

[vsjo-taki.livejournal.com]

When N doesn't matter, it could be also just "предок", but it has more general and broad sense.
For example a great grandmother is предок too.