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Russian (native), English, German (~C1) Norwegian in process

[konina-pianina]

In Russia we don't say "I deserve better".

Instead, we say " Я себя не на помойке нашëл", which literally trаnslates as "I didn't find myself in a trash can"

And I think it's beautiful

[konina-pianina]

Snow and ice vocabulary (because this summer is too hot)

СнегопАд – a snowfall

ПорОша (f) – a coat of freshly fallen snow

Наст – the hard ice crust that forms on the snow after thaw

Гололёд – almost the same thing as наст, but it's used for ice formed on the roads, wires abd tree branches

МетЕль (f), вьЮга , пургА– a snowstorm without snowfall caused by the wind moving snow from the ground

БурАн – a snowstorm in the steppe

Град – hail

Иней – a thin coat of ice crystalls formed on the various surfaces in cold and humid weather

Изморозь (f) – the same as иней, but forms on the surfaces of long and thin objects like wires, branches, leaves and grass

Кить (f) – the snow falling in large flakes

КухтА, нАвись (f) – a pile of snow on the tree branches

ЛедостАв – a permanent ice coat on the water

ЛедохОд – the process of melting ice moving down the river in the spring

Падь (f) – fluffy coat of large snowflakes

Позёмок – similiar to метель, but the snow is just slightly stirred with the streams of air right above the groung

СугрОб – a pile of snow or a snow hill, a thick snow coat formed during the winter

ПротАлина – a gap in the said snow pile caused by its melting

СлЯкоть – the slushy mix of melting snow, water and dirt (the whole country literally drowns in this every spring)

СосУлька – an icicle, a stalactite-like ice crystall, usually they form on the edges of roofs and of the branches

(there's always a lot of hardly translatable words when it comes to describing weather)

[konina-pianina]

Animal verbs in Russian

with aspects

Свинячить (from swine/pig) imperf. — being messy, sloppy, spreading dirt and mess around oneself

Хомячить (from hamster) imperf. — to eat/sneak 

Ты схомячил всё моё печенье! You sneaked all my cookies!

Проворонить (from crow) perf. — to loose something because of ones own carelesness. It refers to the Fable of Ivan Krylov about a crow, who lost her cheese while listening to the fox giving her false compliments

Собачиться (from dog) imperf. — to argue without a proper reason

Ёжиться (from hedgehog) imperf. — to squirm (we must admit, that hedgehogs are the best at squirming)

Петушиться (from cock) imperf. — to act agressive or pretentious

Бычиться (from bull) imperf. — being stubborn

Сычевать (from athene/owl) imperf.— to be restless or sleepless, or slangy — to search trough something or to be obsessed with it

Я уже третий год сычую в этом фандоме. I'm hanging in this fandom for the third year already.

Крысятничать (from rat) imperf.— to steel or betray

Куковать imperf. — cuckoo, to suffer, to be in misery

Советь (from owl) imperf.— to become groggy, sleepy

Обезьянничать (from ape) imperf. — to tease or mimic someone, to fool around

Ехидничать (from echidna) imperf. — to insult someone, sarcastic

Приголубить (from pigeon/dove) perf. — to comfort someone. The word dove is sometimes equal to darling, though.

Вошкаться (from louse) imperf.— to bustle, to move chaotically

Попугайничать (from parrot) imperf. — to mimic, to fool (just like обезьянничать)

Ишачить (from donkey) imperf. — to work hard

Моржевать (from walrus) imperf. — to dive in cold water, to swim in the winter (as hobby and lifestyle)

Змеиться (from snake) imperf. — to move like a snake with aspects

[konina-pianina]

—Well, I decided to start a russian langbr blog with a short post about... not quite russian.

Japonisms in Russian slang

The Otaku-culture in Russia is huge, so there's no wonder some of japanese words came into common use. Lots of young people use them in social media and everyday communication. It's short. It sounds cool. It's ironic (modern russian slang is all about irony, you know)

So, there are some of common words with japanese roots I managed to remember

Кун (-kun) — a suffix used as noun, meaning a boy or a guy There's even a radical feminist community called Куны Не Нужны (Guys aren't needed), which is quite famous in VK

Тян (-chan, read tyan) — another suffix used as noun, girl, sometimes girlfriend.

 Some people call the others kuns and chans even if they know very little about Japanese culture

Ня (nya) — originally a cat sound, used as a way to express adoration Няшный — cute. But who are we, if we wouldn't add some of those hilarious suffixes? There you are. A word cute made of mew. Няш(-а/-ка/-ечка) — a cutie, a little cutie, a tiny cutie (depends on which of the suffixes you prefer) Няшить — to caress (but so often used in sexual context) a verb, because the powerful word formation is unstoppable. 

Such words as senpai, sensei, kohai and many others are quite common, too. But not as weird and specific as the ones above.

Bonus:

Кошкодевочка — literally a cat girl, neko. You see, it works both directions