Designed for students who have already developed a basic competence in Russian, this book expands and improves their vocabulary. It is invaluable as a guide to finding the right word for the context because it provides detailed information on groups of Russian words with related meanings, including examples of usage and English glosses. Two indexes allow users to quickly locate words in Russian or English. The book is an essential reference for students as well as teachers of Russian and other professional linguists.
Excerpt from The Learner's Russian-English Dictionary There has long been a need for a dictionary designed especially for the English-speaking student who seeks to gain active mastery of Russian. Such a student needs much more than the one or two synonyms, sporadically supplemented by idiomatic expressions, that are found in most foreign language dictionaries. He needs detailed indications about how each Russian word is in ected and about its accentuation in the various in ected forms. He also needs to be told as much as possible about the usage of the different words, for words in one language are only too often used quite differently than their nearest synonyms in a second language. Information of this type has hitherto been available only in multivolume dictionaries, which are expensive, hard to handle, and, moreover, not being compiled with an English speaking user in mind, frequently fail to discuss difficulties that would be encountered by such a user. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
This expanded and updated reference book lists approximately 5,100 Russian idiomatic words and expressions with their translations into English. Included are figures of speech, slang, and vulgarisms, many of which cannot be found in standard Russian-English dictionaries. Here are valuable insights on how Russian is really spoken today. Each entry comes with an example sentence in Russian and its English translation.
