взгляд

[squodge.livejournal.com]

Hi all, I've never posted on learn_russian, so I'll just quickly introduce myself. I'm Jason and I'm from Liverpool (England); but now live in London, and I'm a final year student of Linguistics and Music who happens to teach himself a bit of Russian now and again.

Okay, this is a weird request... but basically I'm looking for words in Russian that have 4 (or even more?) consecutive consonants in them, such as взгляд. I learned this word from my girlfriend, and it's fascinated me about Russian, how it can have as many as 4 consonants in a row.

Many thanks for this strange request - cheers!

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[nale.livejournal.com]

There are some words with prefix "контр-" (= anti- / counter-)

E.g.: контрреволюционный (=counter-revolutionary), контртеррористический (=antiterrorist), etc.

May be this is not the sort that counts, for these are not actually _Russian_ words. :)

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[nale.livejournal.com]

...And then there's a prefix "сверх-" (= ultra- / super-): сверхскоростной (= super-high-speed), for example.

[simonff.livejournal.com]

вздрогнуть
вспрыснуть
всплеск
здравствуйте (though the first "в" in "вств" is silent)
таксистский
спортсмен

контртеррористический
сверхсредства
(the last two are composite, hence, similar constructs are possible with other roots)

Also, last names: Armenian Мкртчян and Polish Ястржембский. :)

(спасибо yandex.ru)

Me again :o)

[nale.livejournal.com]

Взгрустнулось. (impersonal verb, = speaking of a person feeling depressed) :)

Взгромоздить (= to pile up)

[loki-fledermaus.livejournal.com]

i am also from England and learning Russian and i also like finding words which do that!
like : пляг
which i think is beach...although i might be wrong...!

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[nale.livejournal.com]

It's пляж, actually. ;)

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[squodge.livejournal.com]

Actually, пляж has only 3 consonants. The я is a vowel, isn't it?

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[nale.livejournal.com]

Quite right. :) That is, it has nothing to do with the words in question - but I just wanted to... er... correct an obvious mistake. :)

Cheers...

[squodge.livejournal.com]

Thanks everyone for the Russian words... keep them coming in!
~squodge~

[noser.livejournal.com]

There is a somewhat famous word with 6 consecutive consonants: "взбзднуть", which I'd rather not translate. Impressing your girlfriend with this word might not be a good idea, either :)

[welgar.livejournal.com]

расстроиться (to go upset)
встреча (meeting) / встречать (to meet)
расстрелять (to shoot dead, often - to execute by shooting)

In fact, there are really many of these words.

[tarakatitsa.livejournal.com]

встрепенуться
встроенный

[galushko.livejournal.com]

агентство (agency, agents; dealership)

[peps.livejournal.com]

As far as I know there'are actually one word with even 5 consecutive consonants. It's the verb взбзднуть which means to fart. It's very rare, I heard it myself only when somebody was asking "Do yo know a word with 5 consonants?" or something like that.

[angels-chinese.livejournal.com]

There are also normal (not like взбзднуть, excuse me :) words with 5 consecutive consonants:

бодрствование
мудрствование

and the verbs for them - бодрствовать, мудрствовать.

Russians like to joke on this subject :) Maybe yoy know the answers for the riddle "word with three consecutive "е"" - длинношеее and змееед? And a word with for "ы" in it? Well, it's вылысыпыд :))))) That's made up, of course, it's a no-good pronounced велосипед ;)))

[bobcha.livejournal.com]

Слово "змееед" появилось в языке только в 1918 г. До реформы орфографии, оно писалось с двумя ятями: змѣеѣдъ.