"Cold water"

[ugly-boy.livejournal.com]

I learned a new phrase the other day from the Russian woman at work—хáлодна вадá. I hope I'm spelling that correctly, it was my first encounter with spoken Russian! It's supposed to say "cold water." I put the accents there to illustrate where I heard the stress, in case I got it wrong.

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[arden667.livejournal.com]

As "cold" is an adjective describing water, and in that unstressed "o" in russian generally morphes to an "a", the proper spelling would be: холодная вода (with the stresses on the second "o" in "холодная" and the "a" in "вода"). :)

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[ugly-boy.livejournal.com]

Thank you. That stressed/un-stressed 'o' thing always gets me.

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[ugly-boy.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

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[moon-aka-sun.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it helps, once I've seen a Russian-Japanese dictionary, rather old one, and it had IPA for all russian words. It's fun to read it (for Russians, of course), but for foreigners it can be extremely useful.

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[ugly-boy.livejournal.com]

That's really cool. I'd love to look at IPA transcriptions of Russian (and Japanese, though Japanese is much more phonetic).